{"product_id":"schoenberg-by-harvey-sachs-9781631497575","title":"Schoenberg","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores \u003cem\u003eSchoenberg\u003c\/em\u003e to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century's most influential composers and teachers. Sachs shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the \"Procrustean bed\" of tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDefying his critics—among them the Nazis, who described his music as \"degenerate\"—he constantly battled the anti-Semitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383988011244,"sku":"9781631497575","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24309033482768.jpg?v=1773392970","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/schoenberg-by-harvey-sachs-9781631497575","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}