Language:
German
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Angaben zur Quelle:
147,4 (1986) 7-19
Keywords:
Schoenberg, Arnold,
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Remarks on the continuity between Richard Wagner's distinction between Jewish and German art and Nazi attacks on Arnold Schoenberg's atonal music, which was defined as "a pathological phenomenon of Jewish intellectualism" and "a chaos which is the artistic parallel of Bolshevism". Schoenberg's early views, his conversion to Protestantism, and his desire to be a "German artist" show that, like other Jewish intellectuals in fin-de-siecle Vienna, he accepted Wagner's ideas. However, he later changed his attitude and returned to Judaism as a result of Nazi persecution.
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