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This book talks about music. It incorporates modal and tonal music.
It talks about Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of contempoary music,
Alban Berg and how the past plays on contemporary music and Anton
Webern and the future of contemporary music. As well as the
structure of contemporary musical speech. Rene Leibowitz was a
French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in
Warsaw, Poland. During the early 1930s, Leibowitz studied
composition and orchestration with Ravel in Paris, where he was
introduced to Schoenberg's Twelve-note technique by the German
pianist and composer Erich Itor Kahn. He subsequently studied with
Schoenberg's pupil Webern. Many of the works of the Second Viennese
School were first heard in France at the International Festival of
Chamber Music established by Leibowitz in Paris in 1947. Leibowitz
was highly influential in establishing the reputation of the Second
Viennese School, both through activity as a teacher in Paris after
WWII and through his book Schoenberg et son ecole, published in
1947 and translated by Dika Newlin as Schoenberg and his School (US
and UK editions 1949). This was among the earliest theoretical
treatises written on Schoenberg's 12-tone method of composition.
Leibowitz's advocacy of the Schoenberg school was taken further by
his two most gifted pupils, each taking different paths in
promoting the musics of Schoenberg, Webern and the development of
serialism, namely Pierre Boulez and Jacques-Louis Monod. His
American students include the composers Will Ogdon, Janet Maguire,
and the avant-garde film director-animator John Whitney. As
conductor, Leibowitz was active in many recording projects. One of
the most widely circulated and most notable is a set of the
Beethoven symphonies made for Reader's Digest Recordings; it was
apparently the first recording of the symphonies to follow
Beethoven's original metronome markings. In choosing this approach,
Leibowitz was influenced by his friend and colleague Rudolf
Kolisch. Leibowitz likewise made many recordings for Reader's
Digest in their various compilation albums. He also wrote for Les
Temps modernes, applying existentialist ideas to musicology.
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