SCHOENBERG AND REDEMPTION

Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown arg ues that Schoenberg's revolutionary step was in part a response to Wagner's negative charges concerning the Jewish influence on Germ an music. In 1898, and especially 1908, Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his commitment to Wagnerian modern ism to pr...[Read more]