Name: Schoenberg's Early Correspondence By Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)
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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence by Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

Early in his career, the composer Arnold Schoenberg maintained correspondence with many notable figures: Gustav Mahler, Heinrich Schenker, Guido Adler, Arnold Rose, Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, to name a few. In this volume of Oxford's Schoenberg in Words series, Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst present English translations of the entirety of Arnold Schoenberg's early correspondence, from the earliest extant letters in 1891 to those written in the aftermath of the controversial premieres of his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, and the Kammersymphonie, Op. 9. The letters provide a wealth of information on many of the crucial stages in Schoenberg's early career, offering invaluable insights into his daily life and working habits. New details emerge about his activities at Wolzogen's Buntes Theater in Berlin, his frequently confrontational interactions with his first publisher (Dreililien Verlag), the reactions of friends and critics to the premieres of his works, his role in the founding of the Vereinigung schaffender Tonkunstler, his activities as a teacher, and his (all too often unsuccessful) attempts to convince musicians to perform his music. Presented alongside the editors' extensive running commentary, the more than 300 letters in this volume create a vivid picture of the young Schoenberg and his times.

About Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

Ethan Haimo, theorist and composer, is Professor of Music at Bar Ilan University. He has written extensively on the music of Arnold Schoenberg including Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey (1990) and Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language (2006). He has also written about form in Classical music, including the book, Haydn's Symphonic Forms (1995). Sabine Feisst is Professor of Music at Arizona State University. Focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century music studies, she published the monographs Der Begriff Improvisation in der neuen Musik (1997) and Schoenberg's New World: The American Years (2011) which won the Society for American Music's Lowens Award. With Severine Neff, she co-edits the nine-volume set Schoenberg in Words (Oxford University Press).

Preface and Editorial Notes Acknowledgements Frequently Used Abbreviations Chapter One: Letters before 1900 Chapter Two: Letters, 1901 Chapter Three: Letters, 1902 Chapter Four: Letters, 1903 Chapter Five: Letters, 1904 Chapter Six: Letters, 1905 Chapter Seven: Letters, 1906 Chapter Eight: Letters, through May 1907 Appendix 1: Undated Letters Appendix 2: Items not included Select Bibliography

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence by Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

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Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

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Schoenberg in Words

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2017-10-26

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

Schoenberg's Early Correspondence by Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence by Ethan Haimo (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Bar Ilan University)

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