The Second String Quartet in F-Sharp Minor
by Arnold Schoenberg, Severine Neff
ISBN-10: 0393978028
ISBN-13: 9780393978025
$31.64
Book Specs
Perfect
W. W. Norton & Company
Published on
Oct 31, 2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Dimensions
6.20x0.70x8.30 Inches
Weight
1.04 Pounds
About the Book
For nearly a century, it has inspired composers, scholars, critics, performers, and visual artists.
Severine Neff re-creates for her readers the quartet's historical, cultural, and musical background-its introduction of the human voice, its genesis during a personal crisis in the composer's life, the scandal at its premiere, and its endlessly controversial reception, both critical and analytic.? This volume includes a newly edited, authoritative score of the quartet, as well as previously unavailable and newly translated texts by Grant Chorley.
"Indispensable for understanding one of the central compositions of the twentieth century."--Walter Frisch, Columbia University.