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Speechsong : The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
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ISBN: 1950192504 1950192490 Year: 2020 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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"Speechsong is a work of imaginative musicology that addresses the engimas of Schoenberg and Gould, of singing and speaking, of Moses und Aron, of technology and being. Its point of departure is Gould’s last public performance, given at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where a number of Schoenberg’s works were performed during his California exile. It is here, after that last performance, that Gould encounters a spectral Schoenberg in a staged conversation that explores Schoenberg’s travails in rethinking the fundamentals of Western music. This first part of Speechsong recalls Schoenberg’s operatic masterpiece, Moses und Aron, in which the divinely inspired Moses seeks the help of his brother to relate his vision: Moses speaks and Aron sings. Written as a twelve-tone composition, the opera produces an involution of harmonics that was Schoenberg’s response to Richard Wagner’s diatribes about synagogue noise. For Gould, Schoenberg’s is a formalist revolution; Schoenberg’s life, however, suggests that it was a search for personal and political freedom.The second half of Speechsong is a critical essay in twelve “moments” that re-articulates the staged conversation as an inquiry into the intersections of music and mediation. Gould’s turn to the recording studio emerges as a post-humanist inquiry into recorded music as a repudiation of the virtuoso tradition and a liberation from unitary notions of selfhood. Schoenberg’s exodus from musical tradition likewise takes his twelve-tone invention beyond musical performance, where it emerges, along with Gould’s soundscapes, as a prototype of acoustic installations by artists such as Stephen Prina and Cory Arcangel. In these works, music abandons the concert hall and the exigencies of harmony for an acoustic space that embraces at once the recordings of Gould and the performances of Schoenberg that have found their home on the internet."

German modernism
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ISBN: 1282360264 1423727606 9786612360268 0520940806 1598757849 9780520940802 9781423727606 9780520243019 0520243013 9781598757842 9781282360266 9780520251489 0520251482 6612360267 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870's through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker. Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.


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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe.
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ISBN: 0520957709 9780520957701 9780520281868 0520281861 1306417155 9781306417150 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley

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Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw-a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audience. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide.


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The Doctor Faustus dossier
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ISBN: 0520969154 9780520969155 9780520296824 0520296826 9780520296831 0520296834 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California

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Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.


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Eduard Steuermann : "Musiker und Virtuose".
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ISBN: 3967075737 386916817X Year: 2022 Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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Eduard Steuermann (1892–1964), Austrian-Polish-Jewish pianist from Galicia, student of Busoni, teacher and friend of Adorno, exiled American, sought-after soloist and pedagogue between Vienna, New York and Darmstadt, sought throughout his life the "almost impossible": to reconcile truth and beauty in uncompromising "devotion to music". The esteem in which he was held as the most important pianist for the establishment of New Piano Music, not only by the Viennese Schoenberg circle, has had a lasting effect on an appreciation of his person that goes beyond this. In 14 contributions that look at Steuermann from very different angles – discussing his life, his family and artistic ties, his music-making and composing, his work as a teacher and witty author – the view of the breadth of his work is widened on the basis of numerous previously unexplored materials, and the portrait of an artist who, according to Adorno, embodied the "conscience" of music itself is drawn. Eduard Steuermann (1892–1964), österreichisch-polnisch-jüdischer Pianist aus Galizien, Schüler Busonis, Lehrer und Freund Adornos, Exil-Amerikaner, gefragter Solist und Pädagoge zwischen Wien, New York und Darmstadt, hat zeitlebens das "beinahe Unmögliche" gesucht: in kompromissloser "Hingabe an die Musik" Wahrheit und Schönheit zu versöhnen. Die Wertschätzung, die ihm als dem wichtigsten Pianisten für die Etablierung Neuer Klaviermusik nicht nur des Wiener Schönberg-Kreises entgegengebracht wurde, hat einer darüber hinausgehenden Würdigung seiner Person nachhaltig entgegengewirkt. In 14 Beiträgen, die Steuermann von sehr unterschiedlichen Seiten betrachten – sein Leben, seine familiären und künstlerischen Bindungen, sein Musizieren und Komponieren, sein Wirken als Lehrer und geistvoller Autor erörtern –, wird anhand zahlreicher bisher unerschlossener Materialien der Blick auf die Breite seines Schaffens geweitet und das Porträt eines Künstlers gezeichnet, der nach Adorno das "Gewissen" der Musik selbst verkörperte.

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Eduard Steuermann, Michael Gielen, Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Rudolf Kolisch, Theodor W. Adorno, Wiener Schule, Wiener Espressivo, musikalische Interpretation, Schönberg-Interpretation, Beethoven-Interpretation, Mozart-Interpretation, Interpretationsforschung, Aufführungsgeschichte, Aufführungsanalyse, Diskographie, Phonographie, Musikgeschichte, Musikanalyse, Rezeptionsgeschichte, Interpretationsgeschichte, Neue Musik, Zwölftontechnik, Exilmusik, Klaviermusik, Klavierpädagogik, Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen, Juilliard School of Music, Black Mountain College, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik --- Edward Steuermann, Michael Gielen, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Rudolf Kolisch, Theodor W. Adorno, Second Viennese School, Viennese Espressivo, musical interpretation, Schoenberg interpretation, Beethoven interpretation, Mozart interpretation, performance studies, performance history, performance analysis, discography, phonography, music history, music analysis, musical reception, history of musical interpretation, New Music, twelve-tone technique, exile music, piano music, piano pedagogy, Society for Private Musical Performances, Juilliard School of Music, Black Mountain College, Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music --- ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Kunstwissenschaften (604) -- Kunstwissenschaften (6040) -- Musikwissenschaft (604024) --- ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Kunstwissenschaften (604) -- Kunstwissenschaften (6040) -- Musikgeschichte (604022) --- ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Kunstwissenschaften (604) -- Kunstwissenschaften (6040) -- Aufführungspraxis (604003) --- ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Arts (604) -- Arts (6040) -- Musicology (604024) --- ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Arts (604) -- Arts (6040) -- Music history (604022) --- ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Arts (604) -- Arts (6040) -- Performance practice (604003) --- Steuermann, Edward, --- Criticism and interpretation.

Weimar on the Pacific
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ISBN: 1282359266 9786612359262 052093380X 9780520933804 9780520257955 0520257952 9781282359260 9780520251281 0520251288 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In the 1930's and 40's, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals-including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg-who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions. Weimar on the Pacific is the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Döblin, Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, Bahr shows how this community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through.

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Jews, German --- Germans --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- German Jews --- Ethnology --- Aesthetics --- Intellectual life. --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Los Anheles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Tʻien-shih-chih-chʻeng (Calif.) --- Tianshizhicheng (Calif.) --- Los Andzsheles (Calif.) --- Lo-shan-chi (Calif.) --- Loshanji (Calif.) --- Angeles (Calif.) --- Ciudad de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo Los Angeles (Calif.) --- City of Los Angeles (Calif.) --- LA (Calif.) --- L.A. (Calif.) --- City of Angels (Calif.) --- لوس أنجلوس (Calif.) --- Lūs Anjilūs (Calif.) --- Los Anceles (Calif.) --- Горад Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Horad Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос Анджелис (Calif.) --- Los Andzhelis (Calif.) --- Λος Αντζελες (Calif.) --- Los Antzeles (Calif.) --- Los-Anĝeleso (Calif.) --- 로스앤젤레스 (Calif.) --- Losŭ Aenjellesŭ (Calif.) --- לוס אנג'לס (Calif.) --- Angelopolis (Calif.) --- Losandželosa (Calif.) --- Los Andželas (Calif.) --- Лос Анџелес (Calif.) --- Los Andželes (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス市 (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu-shi (Calif.) --- Los Anjeles (Calif.) --- Лос Андьелес (Calif.) --- Los Andʹeles (Calif.) --- Los Anxheles (Calif.) --- Лос Анђелес (Calif.) --- Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Calif.) --- Los Angeles City (Calif.) --- La La Land (Calif.) --- Intellectual life --- Exil. --- Intellektueller. --- Literatur. --- Moderne. --- Modernism (Aesthetics). --- Schriftsteller. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1933-1945. --- Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles.. --- Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.. --- Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.. --- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. --- 18th century. --- 1930s. --- 1940s. --- 20th century. --- american history. --- arnold schoenberg. --- bertolt brecht. --- california. --- classicism. --- ehrhard bahr. --- exile. --- fritz lang. --- german artists. --- german modernism. --- germany. --- intellectual. --- los angeles. --- modernism. --- national socialism. --- pacific coast. --- schoenberg. --- socialism. --- southern california. --- theodore adorno. --- thomas mann. --- united states history. --- us history. --- weimer germany. --- weimer republic. --- west coast. --- western united states.

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