Schoenberg: 'Night Music' - Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung

by Arnold Whittall

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009077368
• ISBN13: 9781009077361
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"