This essay offers a somewhat different perspective on the
famous 20th-century modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg, featuring his other
abilities as an artist and teacher and fragmentarily highlighting those of his
personal contacts, which seem to the author important for understanding
Schoenberg’s personality, his creative ups and downs. The study also calls for
a reboot of the knowledge about the Austrian and German intellectuals and
artists of Jewish origin who, in the 1930s, after the Nazis came to power, were
forced to leave the places where they grew up, acquiring modernist views, and
seek a new, safer place by moving to the United States, in particular Los
Angeles, which has become home to many of them. Little-known and forgotten
facts about Schoenberg’s life, presented in the chapter, restore the atmosphere
of the cultural life of Vienna in the early 20th century, as well as Los
Angeles in the 1930s. Events after the composer’s death, related to the
preservation of his memory at the academic level in Los Angeles, open a
research niche that has not yet been explored or published. The chapter is not
just another biography of the composer, but rather “touches” that, based on the
latest sources and the memory of the place, give a fairly clear idea of the
artist and are aimed at changing the existing paradigm about this outstanding
figure.
Author(s) Details:
Alexander Rosenblatt,
Zefat Academic College, Israel.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RRAASS-V4/article/view/13073
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