Book contents
- Schoenberg in Context
- Composers in Context
- Schoenberg in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part ISchoenberg in Place
- Part IIMore than a Composer
- Part IIIApproaches to Composition
- Part IVParadoxes and Predicaments
- Part VSchoenberg’s Others
- Part VIViennese Institutions
- Part VIIPerformers and Critics
- Part VIIIIdeas, Beliefs and Interventions
- Chapter 29Religion
- Chapter 30Philosophy
- Chapter 31War and Politics
- Chapter 32Poetry, Literature and Language
- Chapter 33Technology
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 31 - War and Politics
from Part VIII - Ideas, Beliefs and Interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2025
Book contents
- Schoenberg in Context
- Composers in Context
- Schoenberg in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part ISchoenberg in Place
- Part IIMore than a Composer
- Part IIIApproaches to Composition
- Part IVParadoxes and Predicaments
- Part VSchoenberg’s Others
- Part VIViennese Institutions
- Part VIIPerformers and Critics
- Part VIIIIdeas, Beliefs and Interventions
- Chapter 29Religion
- Chapter 30Philosophy
- Chapter 31War and Politics
- Chapter 32Poetry, Literature and Language
- Chapter 33Technology
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Starting from the Russo-Japanese War until the height of the Cold War era, Schoenberg’s adult life coincided with various wars during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. This chapter explores how Schoenberg navigated these events by surveying his correspondences with friends and pupils, his own writings and brief analyses of two overtly political compositions, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, op. 41 (1942) and A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46 (1947). This chapter ends by considering the two war compositions as the composer’s statement and restatement against fascistic tendencies in Germany during World War II and, again, in the United States during the Cold War era.
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- Schoenberg in Context , pp. 308 - 315Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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