Volume 34, Number 17 · November 5, 1987
The Emperor of China
By Robert Craft
The Berg–Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters
edited by Juliane Brand, edited by Christopher Hailey, edited by Donald Harris
Norton, 439 pp., $29.95
Schoenberg and His Circle: A Viennese Portrait
by Joan Allen Smith
Schirmer Books, 319 pp., $24.95
The history of early twentieth-century music has yet to be written, and where it has been writ large must be rewritten, the editors of The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence declare. This chronicle of the relationship between two of its greatest composers, and of the interaction between them and Central European musical life in the years 1911–1935, immediately establishes itself as part of the rewriting. As fragments of autobiography, the letters fascinate far beyond the confines of music history.
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