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Three Men of Letters

Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, 1906-1921

By: Kathryn Puffett,Barbara Schingnitz

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Three Men of Letters

Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, 1906-1921

By: Kathryn Puffett,Barbara Schingnitz

This book examines the relationship of three very different men who are usually seen as the most important composers of the so-called Second Viennese School – Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern – in the years 1906 to 1921 through a close reading of their correspondence with each other. To date only one of these correspondences, that of Schönberg and Berg, has been published, so the other two sets of letters are not yet widely known. The largely differing personalities of these three men come out clearly in their letters to each other: Schönberg, the master who demands a great many things from his two pupils (long after they have ceased to be that); Berg, from whom he demands the most; and Webern, his most pious devotee. The book covers the period linking the first correspondence between master and pupils in 1906 and the dissolution of the Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen in 1921, the period when these men were most closely bound together.

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533

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Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag

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3990127772

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9783990127773

The Life of Webern

By: Kathryn Bailey

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The Life of Webern

By: Kathryn Bailey

A fascinating account of Webern's life.

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242

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Cambridge University Press

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0521575664

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9780521575669

The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern

Old Forms in a New Language

By: Kathryn Bailey

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The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern

Old Forms in a New Language

By: Kathryn Bailey

This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had profound consequences for composers of the next generation such as Stockhausen and Boulez, who saw Webern's music as revolutionary. In her detailed analyses, however, Professor Bailey demonstrates a fundamentally traditional aspect to Webern's creativity, when describing his own music. Professor Bailey analyses all Webern's twelve-note works (from Op. 17 to Op. 31) i.e. the instrumental and vocal music written between 1924 and 1943. These analyses draw on sketch material recently made available at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and include transcriptions of little-known drafts and sketches. A most valuable aspect of the book is the inclusion in appendices of such materials as a complete explanation of the row content of each work, the correct prime form of each of the rows from Op. 20 onwards, with a matrix constructed for each, and exhaustive row analyses.

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