{"product_id":"schoenbergs-correspondence-with-american-composers-9780195383577","title":"Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers","description":"\u003cem\u003eSchoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers\u003c\/em\u003e is the first edition of all known and available letters between Arnold Schoenberg and over seventy American composers written between 1915 and 1951, in English and English translation and with commentary. In six chronologically organized\u003cbr\u003echapters, the correspondence first casts new light on Schoenberg's contacts with American composers before 1933, including correspondence with students and champions of his music (Israel Amter, James Francis Cooke, Henry Cowell, Edgar Varèse, and Adolph Weiss among others). The letters after 1933\u003cbr\u003eshow how Schoenberg gradually built a network of composer colleagues and friends, among them Mark Brunswick, Oscar Levant, Roger Sessions, Nicolas Slonimsky, Gerald Strang, with whom he discussed compositional ideas, specific musical works and writings, performances and the publication of his\u003cbr\u003ecompositions. These letters also provide insight into his ideas about teaching in private settings, at the Malkin Conservatory and the University of California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe correspondence of his last years illuminates how the reception of Schoenberg's music in the United States was flourishing and how he attracted a growing number of disciples exploring twelve-tone composition. The book also qualifies the concept of and Schoenberg's association with the Second\u003cbr\u003eViennese School. \u003cem\u003eSchoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers \u003c\/em\u003enot only illuminates a varied and vivid epistolary style, but clearly demonstrates Schoenberg's far-reaching connections in the American music world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sabine Feisst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.60w x 2.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195383577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSabine Feisst is Professor of Music at Arizona State University. Focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century music studies, she published the monographs \u003cem\u003eDer Begriff \"Improvisation\" in der neuen Musik\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eSchoenberg's New World: The American Years\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) which won the Society for American\u003cbr\u003eMusic's Lowens Award. With Ethan Haimo she published \u003cem\u003eSchoenberg's Early Correspondence\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) for the nine-volume set \u003cem\u003eSchoenberg in Words\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press), which she co-edits with Severine Neff.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39959068213363,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":154.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5638738b-f507-4e65-a4a4-61d28a338f83.jpg?v=1648740672","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/schoenbergs-correspondence-with-american-composers-9780195383577","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}