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In this study of Arnold Schoenberg, the Austrian-born composer who immigrated to the U.S. in 1933, Sachs blends fleet-footed biography with an accessible analysis of Schoenberg's works — The New Yorker More…

Berry's perspective on the controversy (still) surrounding the composer is clear-eyed, empathetic, and pleasingly free of polemics of its own. . . . Berry's survey of the individual works is... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Nothing in recent years has filled me with an urgent desire to re-engage with [Schoenberg's music] so much as this sensitive and personal book. -- Bayan Northcott — BBC Music Magazine More…

A considerable success - an overview that manages to be serious without ponderousness, fresh without superficiality ... in Bujic's hands there is always a degree of shrewdness to counter the... — Musical Times More…

Highly recommended. Yields rich, evocative insights into a period of modernist music making now receding from consciousness." CHOICE "Joy Calico, however, writes with an ease and fluidity that... — The Times More…