Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
A Schoenberg Chronology MARILYN MCCOY 1
PART I ESSAYS
Schoenberg and the Audience: Modernism, Music, and Politics in the Twentieth Century LEON BOTSTEIN 19 Schoenberg as Theorist: Three Forms of Presentation SEVERINE NEFF 55 Schoenberg and His Public in 1930: The Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op. 35
JOSEPH H. AUNER 85 Schoenberg and Bach RUDOL.E STEPHAN TRANSLATED BY WALTER FRISCH 126 The Compressed Symphony: On the Historical Content of Schoenberg's Op. 9 REINHOLD BR1NKMANN
TRANSLATED BY IRENE ZEDLACHER 141 Schoenberg the Reactionary J. PETER BURKHOL.DER 162
PART II ARNOLD SCHONBERG (1912) Translated by Barbara Z. Schoenberg Introduced by Walter Frisch
Editor's Introduction 195 Biographical 202 The Works 203
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KARL LINKE 204 Schoenberg's Music
ANTON VON WEBERN 210 The Harmonielehre
HEINRICH JALOWETZ 231 The Paintings
WASSILY KANDINSKY 238
SchoenberPARIS VON gGUTERSLO the PainteH r (TRANSLATED WITH JEREMY BRETT) 243 The Teacher (Collected Contributions by His Students) KARL LINKE 250 DR. EGON WELLESZ 254 DR. ROBERT NEUMANN 254 ERWIN STEIN 255 DR. HEINRICH JALOWETZ 255 DR. KARL HORWITZ 256 DR. ANTON VON WEBERN 257 PAUL KDNIGER 258 ALBAN BERG 259
PART III ARNOLD SCHOENBERG SPEAKS
Newspaper Accounts of His Lectures and Interviews, 1927-1933 SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOSEPH H. AUNER TRANSLATED BY IRENE ZEDLACHER 265
Arnold Schoenberg Speaks 268 Where is German Music Headed? 270 A. Schoenberg, Die glikkliche Hand 273 Arnold Schoenberg Holds Forth 274 A Musician Offers a Glimpse into His Workshop 276 Arnold Schoenberg's Idea 279 Music-Ideas from Yesterday 280
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PART IV SCHOENBERG AND AMERICA Selected and Introduced by Sabine Feisst
SCHOENBERG ON AMERICA: ARTICLES, SPEECHES, COMMENTARY Arnold Schonberg: Foremost Representative of Modernistic School in Europe 288 Comment on Jazz 290 Crisis of Taste 291 For New York 292 First American Radio Broadcast 293 Driven into Paradise 297 First California Broadcast 298 Oscar Speech 302 "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" 303 Music and Morality 306 Protest on Trademark 307 The Transplanted Composer 308
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ON SCHOENBERG This Man Schonberg!
A. WALTER KRAMER 312 Who is the Greatest Living Composer?
HENRY COWELL 315 Welcome for the Incoming Modern Master
NICOLAS SLONIMSKY 317 Homage to Schoenberg: The Late Works
LOU HARRISON 323
SchoenberROGER SESSIONg in Sth e United States 327 Index 337
Notes on the Contributors 351
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