Hailey, Christopher

Alban Berg and his world by Christopher Hailey( )

19 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 2,186 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Alban Berg and His World" is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive nuance of late-Romantic tonal practice. The essays in this collection explore the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present newly translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era. Of particular significance are the first translations of Berg's newly discovered stage work Night (Nocturne), Hermann Watznauer's intimate account of Berg's early years, and the famous memorial issue of the music periodical 23. Contributors consider Berg's fascination with palindromes and mirror images and their relationship to notions of time and identity; the Viennese roots of his distinctive orchestral style; his links to such Viennese contemporaries as Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold; and his attempts to maneuver through the perilous shoals of gender, race, and fascist politics. The contributors are Antony Beaumont, Leon Botstein, Regina Busch, Nicholas Chadwick, Mark DeVoto, Douglas Jarman, Sherry Lee, and Margaret Notley. Bard Music Festival: Berg and His World Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York August 13-15, 2010 and August 20-22, 2010

Constructive dissonance : Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture by Christopher Hailey( )

15 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Constructive Dissonance is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical, aesthetic, and intellectual issues that formed Schoenberg's creative persona and continue to influence our response to the modernist legacy of the first half of this century. The essays of the first section investigate Schoenberg's sense of ethnic, religious, and cultural identity. The second section focuses on specific works and the interplay between creative impulse and aesthetic articulation. The final section, addresses the relationship of Schoenberg's legacy to present-day thought and practice

The Berg-Schoenberg correspondence : selected letters by Alban Berg( Book )

13 editions published between 1986 and 1987 in English and held by 712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about the relationship between Berg and Schoenberg: first as pupil and teacher, then as friends and finally, after the premier of Wozzeck, as colleagues and peers. They also shed light on the reasons for Schoenberg's move to Berlin in 1911, the intrigue behind the early demise of the Society for Private Musical Performance, and Schoenberg's feigned indifference to the success of Wozzeck. Schoenberg describes his first years in America and the correspondence ends with Berg's death in 1935. The letters are fully annotated and supplemented with appendices, facsimiles and many photographs. -- Goodreads.com

Alban Berg, master of the smallest link by Theodor W Adorno( Book )

15 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and teacher. Book jacket."--Jacket

Franz Schreker, 1878-1934 : a cultural biography by Christopher Hailey( Book )

11 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Franz Schreker was the most frequently performed opera composer of his generation. His controversial works dominated the central European repertory in the years after the First World War and exercised a major influence on such younger contemporaries as Alban Berg, Kurt Weill, and Ernst Krenek. Forced into retirement by Hitler's racial decrees in 1933, the composer, his music banned, died a broken man. Thereafter Schreker became a forgotten chapter in the history of new music. Schreker's music is only now beginning to enjoy a revival. This first major biography not only introduces the reader to this important repertory, but sets the composer's life and works in the context of his turbulent times. Franz Schreker is a dramatic narrative of an artist poised between the intoxicating late Romanticism of fin-de-siecle Vienna and the sober "New Objectivity" of Weimar Berlin, between a precipitous rise to fame and an equally sudden fall from favor in which aesthetic fashion and political intrigue played their parts. Above all, the Schreker phenomenon can provide a key to understanding the evolution of musical thought during the problematic years before and after the First World War

Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin by Franz Schreker( )

3 editions published in 2003 in German and held by 307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider by N.Y.) Jewish Museum (New York( Recording )

3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume features major works by Kandinsky and other members of the Blue Rider group

Jugendlieder by Alban Berg( )

8 editions published in 1985 in German and Undetermined and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Briefwechsel Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg by Arnold Schoenberg( Book )

6 editions published in 2007 in German and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chorwerk by Franz Schreker( )

9 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide