SCHOENBERG AND NONO. COMPOSITION IN CONFLICT WITH IDEOLOGY AND WAR
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss3.01Keywords:
Arnold Schoenberg, Drei Lieder op. 48, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41, A Survivor from Warsaw op. 46, Luigi Nono, La victoire de Guernica, Il canto sospeso, composition and ideology, engaged music, warAbstract
In the bloody twentieth century, both Arnold Schoenberg and Luigi Nono were faced with various political, sometimes quite toxic ideologies; during their lifetimes, both composers had to experience the devastating impact of wars, with Schoenberg additionally becoming a victim of anti-Semitic Nazism. The central question of this article will be how these circumstances influenced their personal lives and were reflected in their musical works, thematically covering a period from the beginning of the First World War to the various revolutionary ideologies of the late 1960s.
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