Arnold Schoenberg : the composer as Jew
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Arnold Schoenberg : the composer as Jew
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993, c1990
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Arnold Schoenberg was preoccupied with Judaism and biblical themes throughout his life, despite his conversion to Protestantism in 1898. Religious motives inspired an abortive symphonic project as early as 1912, long before the profoundly disturbing "A Survivor from Warsaw" for speaker, male chorus, and orchestra, composed in 1947. The essays collected in this volume represent a comprehensive attempt to shed light on the work and personality of the composer in this pertinent yet unaccountably neglected context. This book should be of interest to musicologists and students of 20th-century music and Jewish studies.
Table of Contents
- Composer and Jew
- prophecy and solitude
- the quest for language - "Oh word .... that I lack"
- idea and realization - the path of the Bible
- creation, unity and law
- relevance and the future of opera - Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill
- dance on a volcano - "Von heute auf morgen"
- unity and strength - the politics of the Jewish survival
- the composer and the Rabbi
- Prague and Jerusalem
- faith and symbol
- Jewish music and Jew's music
- postscript - music, race, and kingdom come
- appendices - Alfred Heuss, "Arnold Schoenberg - Prussian teacher of composition", "Der biblische weg" - conclusion of Act 1, Arnold Schoenberg - "A four-point programme for Jewry", Arnold Schoenberg on the sacredness of art (Letter to Oedon Partosh, Jerusalem).
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