Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bent, Ian; Drabkin, William; Bretherton, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together in one volume the full text of some 450 letters in first-time English translation, organized into sections each prefaced by an introduction. All the letters are fully annotated and they yield information about Viennese society, culture and politics of the time.

The work of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), widely regarded as the most important music theorist of the twentieth century, has shaped the teaching of music theory in the United States profoundly and influenced theorists there, in Europe, and throughout the world. Living and working in Vienna, Schenker maintained a vigorous correspondence with a large circle of professional musicians, writers, music critics, institutions, administrators, patrons, friends, and pupils. A large part of his correspondence was preserved after his death: some 7,000 letters, postcards, telegrams, etc., to and from 400 correspondents. His diaries record the fabric of his personal life and his activities asa private music teacher and writer; they also provide a detailed commentary on historical and political events and offer a window on to the conditions of life in Vienna. Taken together, these documents contribute vividly to the picture of cultural life in Vienna, and elsewhere, from the perspective of a Jewish intellectual and his circle of musical and artistic friends.
Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence represents a concise edition ofsome of the theorist's most important and revelatory letters and diary entries. It offers the full text of some 450 letters in English translation, organized into sections devoted to various aspects of his professional life: teaching, writing, administration, and maintaining contact with an ever widening circle including Ferruccio Busoni, Julius Röntgen, Otto Erich Deutsch, Alphons von Rothschild, Paul von Klenau, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Paul Hindemith, MorizViolin, John Petrie Dunn, and Hans Weisse. Extracts from the diaries provide a summary of important parts of the correspondence that do not survive. The volume includes a detailed exposition of the editorial method, biographicalnotes on correspondents, and a substantial general introduction. Each of the sections is prefaced by an introduction which provides essential historical context, and the letters and diary entries are fully annotated.

IAN BENT is Emeritus Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, and lives in the United Kingdom.

DAVID BRETHERTON is Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton.

WILLIAM DRABKIN is Professorof Music at the University of Southampton.

CONTRIBUTORS: Marko Deisinger, Martin Eybl, Christoph Hust, Kevin C. Karnes, John Koslovsky, Lee Rothfarb, John Rothgeb, Hedi Siegel, Arnold Whittall

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782043829
• Artikelnr.: 56163269

Autorenporträt

Ian Bent, David Bretherton, William Drabkin

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction Schenker as Composer Schoenberg and Schenker's Syrian
Dances Johannes Messchaert and Performance The Society for Creative
Musicians and Schoenberg's Music Julius Röntgen : Editing and Ornamentation
Cotta and the New Musical Theories and Fantasies Otto Erich Deutsch and the
"Moonlight" Sonata Facsimile Universal Edition and the Tonwille Dispute
Drei Masken Verlag and The Masterwork in Music The Sofie Deutsch Bequest
and the Vienna Academy Invitations to Serve: Guido Adler The Photogram
Archive Professorial Sorties: Ludwig Karpath and Wilhelm Furtwängler
Genesis of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Paul von Klenau and Beethoven Georg
Dohrn and the Ninth Symphony Expedient Mutuality: Schenker and August Halm
Expectations Unfulfilled: Schenker and Furtwängler Open Disagreement:
Schenker and Paul Hindemith Fighting the Propaganda War: Walter Dahms
Hamburg and Moriz Violin Further Inroads into Germany: Felix-Eberhard von
Cube Collecting Sources: Anthony van Hoboken Edinburgh Outpost: John Petrie
Dunn The Seminar Years: Felix Salzer Letters from America: Hans Weisse
Select Bibliography Transcription and Translation Credits