Schoenberg and Redemption

Contents

• Introduction;
• 1. Schoenberg, history, trauma?;
• 2. Schoenberg as Christ;
• 3. Otto Weininger, Richard Wagner and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna;
• 4. Schoenberg and Wagnerian Deutschtum;
• 5. Compositional innovation and the redemption of Ahasuerus;
• 6. Woman and the symbolism of self-redemption;
• 7. Re-reading Schoenberg's Musical Idea;
• 8. Coda: changing history into memory; Appendix. 'Every young Jew'.