Schoenberg's Correspondence With Alma Mahler
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 July 2019
- ISBN 9780195381962
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 160x239x27 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship spanning a half century (1903-1951) and two continents.
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A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siécle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles. This volume is the first English-language edition of the complete extant correspondence in new English translations from the original German, many from new transcriptions of handwritten originals, and it is the first English-language book of Schoenberg's correspondence with a female associate. These often quite candid letters afford readers a fascinating glimpse into the personalities, ideologies, institutions, protocols, and aesthetics of early twentieth-century European music culture. Critics, conductors, composers, and visual artists are appraised, kindly or venomously; visual artists and writers also appear.
Above all, Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) emerge as intriguing, complex individuals who transcend their conventional representations as, respectively, a femme fatale and a musical radical. For Schoenberg, Alma was a sympathetic confidante, a comrade in their shared battle against musical conservatism, yet also a canny negotiator of Vienna's social circles, a skill that brought Schoenberg into contact with important patrons. Not only did he invite Alma to his premieres, lectures, and art exhibitions, but Schoenberg also sent her scores of his music and drafts of his writings. He revealed to her his plans for his innovative new music society, the Society for Private Music Performances, and his development of a new method of composition with twelve tones.
The letters remind us of how crucial the social and personal dimensions of music culture were to the early twentieth-century composers and musicians. Gender, ethnicity, and social class conditioned their opportunities in music---and in life---and their shared experience of fleeing fascism to a new country with a different culture and language resonates with our own epoch.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
About the Companion Website
Introduction: A Music Friendship of a Half Century
Chapter One: 1903--1911
Frau Direktor---Early Compositions and New Aesthetics
Chapter Two: 1911--1913
Berlin Again---Witwe Mahler
Chapter Three: 1914--1915
"In This Great Time"
Chapter Four: 1916--1917
Alma M. Gropius---Military Service, New Teaching Opportunities
Chapter Five: 1918--1923
Mödling and the Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen---Italian Sojourns
Chapter Six: 1924--1938
Professional Recognition, Remarriages, Catastrophe
Chapter Seven: 1939--1951
Finale and Homecoming
Bibliography
Index
