The Second String Quartet in F-Sharp Minor: Opus 10 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393978025)

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.

Author: Arnold Schoenberg
ISBN-10: 0393978028
ISBN-13: 9780393978025
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.40w x 0.64d