Schoenberg and Redemption

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 Germa...