Schoenberg's correspondence with American composers
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Schoenberg's correspondence with American composers
（Schoenberg in words, v. 9）
Oxford University Press, c2018
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Includes index
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Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers is the first edition of all known and available letters between Arnold Schoenberg and over seventy American composers written between 1915 and 1951, in English and English translation and with commentary. In six chronologically organized chapters, the correspondence first casts new light on Schoenberg's contacts with American composers before 1933, including correspondence with students and champions of his
music (Israel Amter, James Francis Cooke, Henry Cowell, Edgar Varese, and Adolph Weiss among others). The letters after 1933 show how Schoenberg gradually built a network of composer colleagues and friends, among them Mark Brunswick, Oscar Levant, Roger Sessions, Nicolas Slonimsky, Gerald Strang, with whom
he discussed compositional ideas, specific musical works and writings, performances and the publication of his compositions. These letters also provide insight into his ideas about teaching in private settings, at the Malkin Conservatory and the University of California.
The correspondence of his last years illuminates how the reception of Schoenberg's music in the United States was flourishing and how he attracted a growing number of disciples exploring twelve-tone composition. The book also qualifies the concept of and Schoenberg's association with the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers not only illuminates a varied and vivid epistolary style, but clearly demonstrates Schoenberg's far-reaching connections in
the American music world.
Table of Contents
Preface and Editorial Notes
Acknowledgements
Frequently Used Abbreviations
Chapter One: Schoenberg in Europe (1915-Fall 1933)
Chapter Two: First Years in America (1933-37)
Chapter Three: The Coming War (1938-41)
Chapter Four: America at War (1942-45)
Chapter Five: The Early Postwar Years (1946-49)
Chapter Six: The Last Years (1949-51)
Appendix
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Index
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