Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe

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The work Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe

Statement of responsibility

Joy H. Calico

Creator

• Calico, Joy H

Subject

• Europe
• Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Appreciation -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw-a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audi

Member of

• California studies in 20th-century music, 17
• Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books
• S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

Cataloging source

MiU

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• theses
• bibliography

Series statement

• California studies in 20th-century music
• S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

Series volume

17