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Author: Auner, Joseph Henry
Title: Schoenberg's Handel concerto and The Ruins of Tradition
Journal: Journal of the American Musicological Society
Volume: 49
Number: No. 2
Pages: 264-313
Publishing date: 1996.07
Publishing date (source): Summer 1996
Keywords: Händel Georg Friedrich; Schönberg Arnold. Konzert für Streichquartett und Orchester nach G. F. Händel; Bearbeitungen
Note: Other Entries: Facsimile of Sketch 2096, 2097
Abstract: Arnold Schoenberg began his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
"freely transcribed" from Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, no. 7
in May 1933 as a professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
When he completed the work in September he was an exile in Paris,
recently reconverted to Judaism and preparing to travel to the United
State where he would spend the rest of his life. The tensions and
discontinuities manifest in the creative process and in the completed
score can offer new critical windows onto Schoenberg's ideas of history
and tradition, his position with respect to artistic trends in the
1920s and 1930s, and the eclecticism of his late style.
Call number: Magazin : Auner, Joseph Henry - Handel concerto
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