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Arnold Schoenberg: Critical Lives

Autor Mark Berry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2019

Plecând de la arhivele ce documentează fuga sa precipitată din Berlinul anului 1933, sub amenințarea regimului hitlerist, volumul semnat de Mark Berry ne proiectează în centrul celei mai radicale transformări muzicale a secolului XX. Într-o noapte, un pilon al culturii de la Weimar devenea un fugar, luând cu el viziunea care avea să spulbere ierarhiile tonale tradiționale. Putem afirma că această biografie reușește să demistifice imaginea unui Arnold Schoenberg perceput fie ca erou, fie ca personaj negativ, plasându-l în „simfonia” vastă a istoriei europene și americane.

Reținem modul în care autorul navighează prin etapele creative ale compozitorului: de la primele cvartete de coarde, ancorate în romantismul târziu, până la rigoarea matematică a metodei celor douăsprezece tonuri. În aceeași familie cu Schoenberg and His World de Walter Frisch, volumul adaugă o dimensiune narativă accesibilă, concentrându-se nu doar pe analiza tehnică, ci pe integritatea creativă în fața prejudecăților. Dacă în The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen autorul explora rădăcinile grandorii germane, aici el urmărește cum Schoenberg a preluat acea moștenire wagneriană pentru a o fragmenta și a o reconstrui în atonalitate.

Credem că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în capacitatea de a arăta cum exilul în Los Angeles a transformat un inovator european într-un catalizator pentru avangarda americană. Este o lectură despre reziliență și despre cum o singură minte a putut schimba definitiv gramatica sunetului, oferind un context uman necesar pentru a înțelege complexitatea muzicii moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789140873
ISBN-10: 1789140870
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 35 halftones
Dimensiuni: 134 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Critical Lives
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Recomandăm această carte pasionaților de istoria muzicii și a culturii europene care doresc să înțeleagă omul din spatele „zgomotului” revoluționar. Cititorul va descoperi cum contextul politic a forțat nașterea modernismului și va câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care sistemul dodecafonic a influențat totul, de la muzica de cameră la avangarda americană a lui John Cage.


Despre autor

Mark Berry este un istoric al culturii și muzicolog recunoscut, cu un interes profund pentru evoluția ideilor în spațiul european. Experiența sa academică este dublată de o capacitate remarcabilă de a sintetiza perioade istorice complexe, aspect vizibil și în lucrarea sa anterioară dedicată lui Wagner, The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Berry reușește să îmbine rigoarea cercetării cu o scriitură fluidă, fiind capabil să abordeze subiecte diverse, de la spiritualitate în A New Monastic Handbook până la istoria designului industrial, oferind mereu un context socio-cultural bogat personajelor sale.


Descriere scurtă

The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg’s remarkable life and work, situating his tale within the wider symphony of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.

Born in the Jewish quarter of his beloved Vienna, Schoenberg left Austria for his early career in Berlin as a leading light of Weimar culture, before being forced to flee in the dead of night from Hitler’s Third Reich. He found himself in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he would inspire composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Introducing all of Schoenberg’s major musical works, from his very first compositions, such as the String Quartet in D Major, to his invention of the twelve-tone method, Berry explores how Schoenberg’s revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian late Romanticism and the brave new worlds of atonality and serialism. Essential reading for anyone interested in the music and history of the twentieth century, this book makes clear Schoenberg changed the history of music forever.

Notă biografică

Mark Berry is a reader in music history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s “Ring” and After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from “Parsifal” to Nono. He also regularly reviews concert and opera performances for his popular blog, Boulezian.

Recenzii

"Berry’s perspective on the controversy (still) surrounding the composer is clear-eyed, empathetic, and pleasingly free of polemics of its own. . . . Berry's survey of the individual works is comprehensive and exemplary."

"It’s a book that needed to be written and, informed equally by knowledge and passion, it makes required reading for curious skeptics and devotees alike. . . . Berry wields the sword not with music examples or in-depth analysis but with a full understanding of Schoenberg. . . . The history told here of Schoenberg’s American years is full of vivid anecdote bearing witness to a monstrous ego, a bad sport, and a terrible grudge-holder."

"Arnold Schoenberg lived a 'critical life' by any standards, and his entry here into the Critical Lives series of compact volumes devoted to leading cultural figures of the modern period is very welcome. No composer has ever earned quite such a bogeyman reputation, one still widely held if concert and opera programming is any evidence, yet for those of us who actively crave the sound of his music there is also the fascination of the figure himself—and a deeply human side of the composer, to which those who knew him still testify."

"I do eagerly acknowledge Schoenberg's immense importance, he is one of the handful of indispensable figures in music. It is no criticism of Berry's fine book and clear, illuminating thinking that at its close I did not find Schoenberg any more pleasing. Rather, to his credit, Berry explained to me why I like so little of Schoenberg's music. . . . That was surely unintentional. Berry is a masterful advocate for the composer's quality and importance. His writing has the elegance, energy, warmth, and wit that come from a complete command of his subject matter and the confidence that his view and conclusions are right. . . . The book reinforces my feelings in a way that makes it that much more worthwhile to read, and it is certainly an ideal introduction to the composer. . . . Not every twelve-tone composer communicates to me. That Schoenberg does not says nothing about his stature and meaning, or Berry’s excellent book. I like what I like."

"The thrust of this book is distinctly partisan. Berry is a Schoenberg champion. He describes him as not only the most controversial of all twentieth-century composers but also the most important—the true founding father of heroic modernism."

"Though Schoenberg's music maintains its reputation in his native Austria and to a lesser degree elsewhere in Europe, in North America his name has fallen out of the constellation of musical luminaries. Berry's succinct biography and critical overview will serve to remedy that in part. Berry seizes on both the technical features of Schoenberg's remarkable music and the remarkable cultural context in which it developed. And he does so in an eminently readable style (only minimal appeal is made to musical technicalities such as sonata-allegro form). Thus lay readers should be able to make their way through the book without difficulty. . . . The book includes an excellent select discography with brief annotations and a very select bibliography. Recommended."

"A superb piece of writing: informative, engaging, and compact. It wears its considerable research with a winning lightness of touch. The best introduction to the composer."

"Berry’s gentle and confident account is the best explanation yet of how the lush Wagner-inspired composer turned into a supposedly ornery modernist inventor. It is a convincing, concise tale of what was in fact brave integrity and powerful creativity in the face of cloth-eared prejudice and dangerous antisemitism that changed the conversation about the future of music."