02212cam a2200313 i 4500 936665702 TxAuBib 20230918120000.0 230811s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023025413 9781631497575 HRD 29.95 163149757X HRD 29.95 TxAuBib rda Sachs, Harvey, 1946-, author. Schoenberg [BOOK] : why he matters / Harvey Sachs. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] xx, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index. In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, Harvey Sachs finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers and teachers. Sachs shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the “Procrustean bed” of tradition. Defying his critics―among them the Nazis, who described his music as “degenerate”―he constantly battled the anti-Semitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music. Provided by publisher. 20230918. Schoenberg, Arnold 1874-1951. Composers Austria Biography. Composers United States Biography. Biographies.