Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work

The author, one of the foremost German musical figures, presents Schoenberg as a composer, teacher and man. He shows the immense difficulties he was forced to overcome, and the reactions and influence his work created. The artist's personal life is related to his music, his marriages, his religious conversion, and his travels from Vienna to Berlin, his sojourns in Spain and France, and his final residence in the U.S.