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putting a broken century together
Arnold Schoenberg is generally seen as the composer who did to music what Jackson Pollock was to do to art. Discard the old rules and take it into new realms, psychological and emotional planes hitherto unexplored, or unrepresented in that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Herz-Sommer, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, G. H. Schubert, Gustav Mahler, James Levine, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Robert Craft, Robert Schumann, Sigmund Freud, Wagner
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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann
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GOODNIGHT VIENNA: Vagabonds Exiled to a Dark Void
Early twentieth-century Viennese modernity, obsessed with identity in crisis, was especially preoccupied with the play between external appearances and internal dimensions of the self. How could it not? No doubt, all roads eventually lead to Freud as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Loos, Alfred Kubin, Alma Mahler, Angela Dilkey, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Egon Schiele, Emil Brix, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Robert S. Wistrich
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AUTUMN OF IMPERIAL VIENNA: Illusions Haunted by the Shadow of Death
When Adolf Hitler left provincial Linz in late adolescence there was only one place to go: Habsburg Vienna, the great imperial city, home to a veritable Babylon of peoples, the ineffable seat of an ancient empire. But the crowded streets … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Loos, Arthus Schnitzler, Brigitte Haman, Brigitte Hamman, Charlotte MacMillan, Ciar Byrne, Crown Prince Rudolf, Elfriede Jelenik, Elizabeth Goodstein, Frederic Raphael, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Jason Cowley, Joan Haslip, Jules Wellesley, Karl Krauss, Lyn Gardner, Maria Van Dijk, Max Ophuls, Michael Billington, Michaela Perlmann, Nathan J. Timpano, Robert Pick, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Theodor Herzl
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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schnitzler, Beethoven, Elfriede Jelinek, Giacomo Puccini, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Lacan, John Champagne, Jules Wellesley, Karl Lueger, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Leonard Cohen, Maria Van Dijk, Michael Haneke, Richard Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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ONCE UPON A TIME…
Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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SWEET DREAMS & FLYING MACHINES
Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus You’ve got to help me make a stand You’ve just got to see me through another day My body’s aching and my time is at hand And I won’t make it any other … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Roller, Bright Lights Film Journal, Cosima Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Opera, Gustav Mahler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Hans Richter, James Taylor, James taylor Fire and Rain, Marx Brothers, Mozart, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Terry Teachout, The Marx Brothers, Wagner Brunnhilde, Wagner Gotterdammerung, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Werner Fassbinder
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FINE LINE BETWEEN THE HEROIC & THE IDIOTIC
No other artist has made such ferocious demands upon his performers and the public. Richard Wagner, an autocrat, not only wrote the libretto and the music; often with total disregard for the human voice; but also flung into the score … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolphe Appia, Apocalypse Now, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Beethoven, Bruchner, Cosima and richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, David Michael Lindsey, Edmund Blair Leighton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John F. Runciman, Katherine W. Rinne, Maestro Levine Metropolitan, Metropolitan Opera, Mozart, Placido Domingo, Richard Wagner, Schoenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Wagenr Brunnhilde, Wagner and Hitler, Wagner Bochlin, Wagner hall of Fame Bayreuth, Wagner Lohengrin, Wagner Parcifal, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan, Wagner Tristan and Isolde
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