The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908

Walter Frisch

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520322370
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style. Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music, and symphonic music. This book includes detailed critical analyses of such widely admired and performed compositions asVerklärte Nacht, Gurrelieder, and the First Chamber Symphony, as well as discussions of little-known but important songs and instrumental works from the earlier years. Drawing on original manuscript sources, on Schoenberg's musical environment, on a range of analytical methods, and on Schoenberg's own theories, Frisch traces the development of technique and aesthetic across this critical fifteen-year period of the composer's career. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style. Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in t

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• LIST OF LONGER MUSICAL EXAMPLES
• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• A NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS
• Schoenberg and the Brahms Tradition, 1893-1897
• CHAPTER ONE The “Brahms Fog”: A Context for Early Schoenberg
• CHAPTER TWO The Instrumental Works
• CHAPTER THREE The Songs
• Expanded Tonality, Expanded Forms, 1899-1903
• CHAPTER FOUR The Dehmel Settings of 1899
• CHAPTER FIVE Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 (1899)
• CHAPTER SIX Gurrelieder (1900-1901)
• CHAPTER SEVEN Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5 (1902-1903)
• “The Direction Much More My Own,” 1904-1908
• CHAPTER EIGHT The First String Quartet, op. 7 (1904-1905)
• CHAPTER NINE The First Chamber Symphony, op. 9 (1906)
• CHAPTER TEN The Second Chamber Symphony, op. 38, and the Second String Quartet, op. 10 (1906-1908)
• Appendix of Longer Musical Examples
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
• INDEX OF SCHOENBERG’S COMPOSITIONS AND WRITINGS
• GENERAL INDEX