TY - BOOK ID - 11978702 TI - Schoenberg and redemption PY - 2014 SN - 9780521550352 9781139048934 9781139957397 1139957392 1139048937 0521550351 1139948911 1139949969 1139961624 1139960571 1139956329 1139958453 1139959506 1108722075 1322066299 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Redemption. KW - Schoenberg, Arnold, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Redemption KW - Religion KW - Shenberg, Arnolʹd, KW - Schönberg, Arnold, KW - Schenberg, A. KW - Shenberg, A. KW - שנברג, ארנולד KW - Schönberg, Arnold UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11978702 AB - Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoenberg's revolutionary step was in part a response to Wagner's negative charges concerning the Jewish influence on German music. In 1898 and especially 1908 Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his commitment to Wagnerian modernism to provide an impetus to his radical innovations. While acknowledging the broader turn-of-the-century Viennese context, Brown draws special attention to continuities between Schoenberg's work and that of Viennese moral philosopher Otto Weininger, himself an ideological Wagnerian. She also considers the afterlife of the composer's ideological position when, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the concept of redeeming German culture of its Jewish elements took a very different turn. ER -