Three Men of Letters - Kathryn Puffett

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Résumé :
A look through the correspondence of two befriended pupils and their teacher: Sch?nberg, Berg, Webern This book examines the relationship of three very different men who are usually seen as the most important composers of the so-called Second Viennese School - Arnold Sch?nberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern - in the years 1906 to 1921 through a close examination of their correspondence with each other. To date only one of these correspondences, that of Sch?nberg and Berg, has been published, so the other two sets of letters are not yet widely known. The largely differing personalities of these three men come out clearly in their letters to each other: Sch?nberg, the master who demands a great many things from his two pupils (long after they have ceased to be that); Berg, from whom he demands the most; and Webern, his pious devotee. The book covers the period linking the first correspondence between master and pupils in 1906 and the dissolution of the Verein f?r musikalische Privatauff?hrungen in 1921, the period when these men were most closely bound together.

Biographie:
Barbara Schingnitz read musicology, literature and media studies at Universit?t Basel, graduating in 2008, and als trained as a classical singer at the Basel Musikhochschule, where she graduated with a Master's degree in 2010. She has been an associate of the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe since 2006.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements Conventions Preface The Letters Arnold Sch?nberg The Sch?nberg Aktion Anton Webern Webern and the Theatre Alban Berg Exploitation An Unlikely Friendship The War Finale Select Bibliography Index