Arnold Schoenberg, the modernist innovator who would transform the language of music, saw in the image of the white-faced clown Pierrot the condition of the modern artist: a sensitive, imaginative...
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Who can’t relate, at least a little bit, to the heartsick clown Pierrot? This character has his origins in 16th century Commedia dell’arte. With a heart as fragile as a...
Composers György Ligeti and György Kurtág first met as students in Budapest in 1945. The two became lifelong friends even as they went on to lead very different artistic and...
Composer Hanns Eisler lived much of his life on the road. To be of use to workers in the class struggle and to deliver a message of strength and solidarity...
Musical irony is deeply idiomatic to Shostakovich’s compositional style. It often manifests within the framework of Jewish existential irony, a viewpoint that is hopeful by nature but also self-aware. While...
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was a prize-winning composer, author, educator, and two-time Academy Award nominee. He was also a wanderer, ever in search of a place where he could work without...
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