Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix A Schoenberg Chronology MARILYN MCCOY 1 PART I ESSAYS Schoenberg and the Audience: Modernism, Music, and Politics in the Twentieth Century LEON BOTSTEIN 19 Schoenberg as Theorist: Three Forms of Presentation SEVERINE NEFF 55 Schoenberg and His Public in 1930: The Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op. 35 JOSEPH H. AUNER 85 Schoenberg and Bach RUDOLF STEPHAN TRANSLATED BY WALTER FRISCH 126 The Compressed Symphony: On the Historical Content of Schoenberg's Op. 9 REINHOLD BRINKMANN TRANSLATED BY IRENE ZEDLACHER 141 Schoenberg the Reactionary J. PETER BURKHOLDER 162 PART II ARNOLD SCHONBERG (1912) Translated by Barbara Z. Schoenberg Introduced by Walter Frisch Editor's Introduction 195 Biographical 202 The Works 203 As Introduction KARL LINKE 204 Schoenberg's Music ANTON VON WEBERN 210 The Harmomelehre HEINRICH JALOWETZ 231 The Paintings WASSILY KANDINSKY 238 Schoenberg the Painter PARIS VON GUTERSLOH (TRANSLATED WITH JEREMY BRETT) 243 The Teacher (Collected Contributions by His Students) KARL LINKE 250 DR. EGON WELLESZ 254 DR. ROBERT NEUMANN 254 ERWIN STEIN 255 DR. HEINRICH JALOWETZ 255 DR. KARL HORWITZ 256 DR. ANTON VON WEBERN 257 PAUL KONIGER 258 ALBAN BERG 259 PART III ARNOLD SCHOENBERG SPEAKS Newspaper Accounts of His Lectures and Interviews, 1927-1933 SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOSEPH H. AUNER TRANSLATED BY IRENE ZEDLACHER 265 Arnold Schoenberg Speaks 268 Where is German Music Headed? 270 A. Schoenberg, Die gluckliche Hand 273 Arnold Schoenberg Holds Forth 274 A Musician Offers a Glimpse into His Workshop 276 Arnold Schoenberg's Idea 279 Music-Ideas from Yesterday 280 PART IV SCHOENBERG AND AMERICA Selected and Introduced by Sabine Feisst SCHOENBERG ON AMERICA: ARTICLES, SPEECHES, COMMENTARY Arnold Schonberg: Foremost Representative of Modernistic School in Europe 288 Comment on jazz 290 Crisis of Taste 291 For New York 292 First American Radio Broadcast 293 Driven into Paradise 297 First California Broadcast 298 Oscar Speech 302 "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" 303 Music and Morality 306 Protest on Trademark 307 The Transplanted Composer 308 AMERICAN COMPOSERS ON SCHOENBERG This Man Schonberg A. WALTER KRAMER 312 Who is the Greatest Living Composer? HENRY COWELL 315 Welcome for the Incoming Modern Master NICOLAS SLONIMSKY 317 Homage to Schoenberg: The Late Works LOU HARRISON 323 Schoenberg in the United States ROGER SESSIONS 327 Index 337 Notes on the Contributors 351

About the Author

Walter Frisch, Professor of Music at Columbia University, edited the inaugural volume in the Bard Music Series, on Brahms (1990). He is the author of The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award in 1994.