Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor From Warsaw (1947): Twelve-Tone Music, History of Christianity, and Judaism

Abstract

A discussion of Scoenberg's cantata about Holocaust in the context of Theodor W. Adorno's and Thomas Mann's receptions of Schoenberg's musical twelve-tone system instigated also by Ruth HaCohen's recent book The Music Libel Against the Jews (2011) and its construction of Schoenberg's creative "odyssey".
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTeologien i Historien - Historien i Teologien : Festskrift til Professor Lauge O. Nielsen
EditorsCarsten Selch Jensen, Christian Gottlieb
Number of pages23
Place of PublicationKøbenhavn
PublisherEksistensen
Publication date2016
Pages255-277
ISBN (Print)978-87-410-0088-6
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Faculty of Theology
  • Faculty of Humanities

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