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Schoenberg's New World

Autor Sabine Feisst
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mai 2017

Găsim în acest volum, conceput sub forma unei monografii documentare riguroase, o perspectivă proaspătă și necesară asupra uneia dintre cele mai polarizante figuri ale modernismului muzical. Schoenberg's New World nu este doar o cronică a exilului, ci o explorare senzorială a modului în care un spirit european riguros s-a lăsat modelat de vitalitatea Lumii Noi. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Sabine Feisst reușește să spulbere imaginea clișeică a compozitorului neînțeles și solitar, înlocuind-o cu portretul unui artist implicat activ în sistemul educațional american și dornic să contribuie la avansul muzicii autohtone.

Pe raftul de artă și muzicologie, alături de The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, acest volum se distinge prin focalizarea strictă pe perioada americană (după 1933), oferind detalii despre relațiile sale cu industria de editare și cariera sa pedagogică în Boston și Los Angeles. Dacă în Schoenberg's Early Correspondence am descoperit legăturile sale cu Mahler sau Strauss, aici observăm o evoluție fascinantă către colaborări cu figuri emblematice ale culturii americane. Putem afirma că lectura oferă o experiență auditivă mentală, deoarece contextul oferit pentru lucrările compuse în SUA schimbă fundamental percepția asupra structurii și intenției lor narative. Stilul narativ al lui Feisst este fluid, integrând armonios analiza tehnică cu biografia socială, ceea ce transformă cele 400 de pagini într-o incursiune captivantă în istoria culturală a Războiului Rece și a identității evreiești în exil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190632175
ISBN-10: 0190632178
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de istoria muzicii care dorește să înțeleagă omul din spatele tehnicii dodecafonice. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă umanizată asupra lui Schoenberg, descoperind un mentor dedicat și un artist care a îmbrățișat cultura americană. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum exilul poate deveni un catalizator al creativității și cum modernismul european s-a altoit pe sol american.


Despre autor

Sabine Feisst este o autoritate recunoscută în studiul muzicii moderne și contemporane, fiind profesor de muzicologie la Arizona State University. Expertiza sa în opera lui Arnold Schoenberg este vastă, fiind implicată în editarea unor volume fundamentale precum Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers. Prin munca sa de cercetare, Feisst a contribuit semnificativ la arhivele internaționale, aducând la lumină documente care au redefinit istoriografia muzicală a secolului XX. Abordarea sa combină rigoarea academică cu o înțelegere profundă a contextului socio-politic al compozitorilor aflați în exil.


Descriere

The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on Schoenberg. Drawing on much new information, the book traces early Schoenberg pioneers in America, who set the stage for Schoenberg's arrival in 1933. The volume addresses in detail how Schoenberg while coming to terms with his German and Jewish identities, thoroughly adapted to American society both privately and professionally. New light is cast on Schoenberg's relations with Americans, his interest in American culture, and changes in his religious and political thinking and lifestyle. As Schoenberg was committed to the advancement of American music and composed music inspired by and composed for American musicians, his American works are examined anew with regard to their contexts and the history of their performance and publication. Schoenberg's many interactions with performers and publishers in the United States are explored as well. Illustrating how Schoenberg adjusted to the American educational system, the book delves into Schoenberg's American teaching career, teaching methods and materials and features some of the many remarkable students he taught in Boston and Los Angeles. Finally the impact of Schoenberg's music and ideas on American performers, composers and scholars after World War II is gauged in the light of major political and cultural changes during the Cold War era. Schoenberg's New World contributes to a new understanding of one of the most important pioneers of musical modernism and most polarizing figures in twentieth-century music.

Recenzii

Winner of the Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music
A pioneering work of revisionist scholarship. With a fresh eye, Feisst investigates not only Schoenberg's American years
This is an almost overwhelming study of the life, work, and even world of one of the most important and influential of composers.
An exceedingly thorough study of Schoenberg's American years, has been long in the making and is worth the wait. Feisst's book shows how much there is left to be learned about this astonishing figure in modern cultural history, whose true, full biography has yet to be written.
Feisst's description of Schoenberg's proudly held triple identity
As a musician I think [Feisst] won her argument with earlier historians while also accomplishing something more valuable. She has provided a rich portrait of the life and times of a significant musician as he came to terms with his new home, and I am grateful that she illuminates not only his work and his thought, but also his complicated humanity.
A satisfyingly thorough and probing study of Arnold Schoenberg's life in America...You'll find it absorbing to read about how this most European of composers came to grips with the strange new world of southern California, which he liked far more than is generally realized.
Meticulously researched, richly revealing...Feisst...has brought together a wealth of information that challenges old myths, offering a more balanced and multivalent account of Schoenberg's late years.
An important book, extensive in its research, lively in its presentation, smartly revisionist in its attitude
Highly recommended.
A very readable but also thoroughly and meticulously documented work. Feisst supplies a compendium of recent research and further readings in footnotes and in a bibliography for interested scholars and students...Schoenberg's New World is a pivotal work that sets an example for future musicological research on émigré composers.
The thoroughness and insight that she brings to this [work] makes Schoenberg's New World an invaluable and engaging source of information for Schoenberg specialists, Americanists, film music scholars, and anyone with an interest in the history and development of Southern California's rich musical community during the second quarter of the twentieth century.
Schoenberg's New World is a gold mine of historical and biographical information, the fruit of diligent and resourceful research.
Feisst's groundbreaking work presented documentary proof consisting of correspondence and interviews that Schoenberg's American years have wilfully been misinterpreted as years of "selling out" or of frustration with a nation incapable of understanding his musical values. It... places both arrivals within a new context.

Notă biografică

Sabine Feisst is Associate Professor of Music History and Literature at Arizona State University. She published a book on concepts of improvisation in new music as well as numerous articles on Arnold Schoenberg and American music in essay collections, professional journals, and encyclopedias.