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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe.

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 o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calico, Joy H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Colección:California studies in 20th-century music ; 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 audi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (273 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
ISBN:9780520957701
0520957709
1306417155
9781306417150