| Description |
1 online resource (586 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Editorial Method; Abbreviations; Biographical Notes on Correspondents and Others; General Introduction; I The Early Career; 1 Schenker as Composer; 2 Schoenberg and Schenker's Syrian Dances; 3 Johannes Messchaert and Performance; 4 The Society for Creative Musicians and Schoenberg's Music; 5 Julius Röntgen: Editing and Ornamentation; II Schenker and his Publishers; 6 Cotta and the New Musical Theories and Fantasies; 7 Otto Erich Deutsch and the "Moonlight" Sonata Facsimile |
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8 Universal Edition and the Tonwille Dispute9 Drei Masken Verlag and The Masterwork in Music; III Schenker and the Institutions; 10 The Sofie Deutsch Bequest and the Vienna Academy; 11 Invitations to Serve: Guido Adler; 12 The Photogram Archive; 13 Professorial Sorties: Ludwig Karpath and Wilhelm Furtwängler; IV Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; 14 Genesis of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; 15 Paul von Klenau and Beethoven; 16 Georg Dohrn and the Ninth Symphony; V Contrary Opinions; 17 Expedient Mutuality: Schenker and August Halm; 18 Expectations Unfulfilled: Schenker and Furtwängler |
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19 Open Disagreement: Schenker and Paul HindemithVI Advancing the Cause; 20 Fighting the Propaganda War: Walter Dahms; 21 Hamburg and Moriz Violin; 22 Further Inroads into Germany: Felix-Eberhard von Cube; 23 Collecting Sources: Anthony van Hoboken; 24 Edinburgh Outpost: John Petrie Dunn; 25 The Seminar Years: Felix Salzer; 26 Letters from America: Hans Weisse; Select Bibliography; Transcription and Translation Credits; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935 -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935 fast |
| Subject |
Music theorists -- Austria -- Vienna -- Correspondence
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Music theorists
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Austria -- Vienna
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bent, Ian, 1938- editor.
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Bretherton, David, editor
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Drabkin, William, editor
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| ISBN |
9781782043829 |
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1782043829 |
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1843839644 |
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9781843839644 |
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