Arnold Schoenberg's Journey. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)

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Arnold Schoenberg's Journey. By Allen Shawn. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2002. [xx, 340 p. ISBN 0-374-10590-1. $26.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.

In the early 1920s, after a ten-year period (1913-23) of compositional silence in which he devised a system of composing with twelve tones, Arnold Schoenberg claimed that his innovation would insure the dominance of German music for years to come. His misjudged remark, with its offensive chauvinistic tone, along with the truly shocking sound of much of the music that he produced, antagonized many listeners ...

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