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    This class will examine fin-de-siècle Vienna through the lens of composer Arnold Schoenberg. It will address questions about the relationship between art and morality, and how Viennese Expressionism reflected and anticipated turbulent 20th century politics. It will also examine the concept of "prophetic modernism" through analyzing Schoenberg's works and his relationships with figures like Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus. The class will use Schoenberg's journey from German Idealism to messianic visions in his later works to explore how the Jewish experience in Vienna shaped modernism in philosophy and art. Selected readings and music will provide material to discuss why the artistic monuments of turn-of-the-century Vienna

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    This class will examine fin-de-siècle Vienna through the lens of composer Arnold Schoenberg. It will address questions about the relationship between art and morality, and how Viennese Expressionism reflected and anticipated turbulent 20th century politics. It will also examine the concept of "prophetic modernism" through analyzing Schoenberg's works and his relationships with figures like Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus. The class will use Schoenberg's journey from German Idealism to messianic visions in his later works to explore how the Jewish experience in Vienna shaped modernism in philosophy and art. Selected readings and music will provide material to discuss why the artistic monuments of turn-of-the-century Vienna

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    Schoenberg Course Description

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    This class will examine fin-de-siècle Vienna through the lens of composer Arnold Schoenberg. It will address questions about the relationship between art and morality, and how Viennese Expressionism reflected and anticipated turbulent 20th century politics. It will also examine the concept of "prophetic modernism" through analyzing Schoenberg's works and his relationships with figures like Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus. The class will use Schoenberg's journey from German Idealism to messianic visions in his later works to explore how the Jewish experience in Vienna shaped modernism in philosophy and art. Selected readings and music will provide material to discuss why the artistic monuments of turn-of-the-century Vienna

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    Schoenberg: Music, God and Catastrophe in Fin-de-sicle Vienna

    In this class we will examine the remarkable cultural ferment of n-de-sicle Vienna through the lens of one of its principal protagonists, the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Among the questions we will address are: is there a morality of art? How do the apocalyptic yearnings of Viennese Expressionism re ect, and anticipate, the turbulent politics of the early twentieth century? What is prophetic modernism? In trying to answer these questions, we will examine Schoenbergs relation to other leading Viennese gures, including Ludwig Wi genstein and the satirist Karl Kraus, and the interpretation of his music by such writers as eodor Adorno and omas Mann. We will use Schoenbergs own path from a youthful immersion in German Idealism, through his reconversion to Judaism, culminating in the messianic visions of Moses und Aron and A Survivor om Warsaw to explore the broader ways in which the Jewish experience in Vienna shaped the history of modernism in philosophy and the arts. And we will try to show why, a century a er their creation, the artistic monuments of turn-of-the-century Vienna retain a unique power to compel and disturb. Selected reading: Adorno, eodor. Selections from Philosophy of New Music and Quasi una Fantasia. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: eory of Colors (selections.) e Disinherited Mind. Heller, Erich: Goethe and the Scienti c Truth in Mass, omas: Doktor Faustus (selections.)

    Janik, Alan and Stephen Toulmin: Wi gensteins Vienna (selections.) Kraus, Karl: selections from Die Fackel. Ringer, Alexander: Schoenberg: the Composer as Jew (selections.) Schoenberg, Arnold: Style and Idea and eory of Harmony (selections.) Steiner, George: Language and Silence and Bluebeards Castle (selections.) Wi genstein, Ludwig: Notebooks and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (selections.) Selected listening: Schoenberg: Gurrelieder, Five Orchestral Pieces, Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Die Jakobsleiter (selections.) String Quartet #2, Erwartung, Pierrot Lunaire, Moses und Aron, A Survivor om Warsaw, and String Trio (complete.) Wagner: Parsifal (selections.)

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