The Berg-Schoenberg correspondence : selected letters / edited by Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris.

By: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Contributor(s): Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 | Brand, Juliane | Hailey, Christopher | Harris, Donald.

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BookPublisher: Basingstoke : MacMillan, 1987Description: xxviii, 497 p ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0333451767.Subject(s): Berg, Alban, 1885-1935 -- Correspondence | Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Correspondence | Composers -- Austria -- Correspondence

| Composers -- Correspondence

| Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism

DDC classification: 780.92 BER

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending	780.92 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00101489

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

An American of Austrian birth, Arnold Schoenberg composed initially in a highly developed romantic style but eventually turned to painting and expressionism. At first he was influenced by Richard Wagner and tried to write in a Wagnerian style. He attracted the attention of Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, with whom he created a new compositional method based on using all 12 half-steps in each octave as an organizing principle, the so-called 12-tone technique. His importance to the development of twentieth-century music is incredible, but the music he composed using this new method is not easily accessible to most concertgoers. (Bowker Author Biography)