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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023A New Yorker Best Book of the Year[A]n immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly controversial and chronically misunderstood giant of 20thcentury music. John Adams, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewAn astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentiethcentury composers.In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (18741951) was an international icon. His twelvetone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth centurys most influential composers and teachers. Sachs shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the Procrustean bed of tradition. Defying his criticsamong them the Nazis, who described his music as degeneratehe constantly battled the antiSemitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music. 10 illustrations
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