Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ambivalent Modernism: Perspectives from the 1870s and 1880s 2. German Naturalism 3. Convergences: Music and the Visual Arts 4. Bach, Regeneration, and Historicist Modernism 5. Ironic Germans 6. Dancing in Chains: Strauss, Hofmannsthal, Pfitzner, and Their Musical Pasts Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index

About the Author

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of Brahms: The Four Symphonies (2003), The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 (California, 1993), and Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (California, 1984).

Reviews

"In a brilliant and original synthesis of developments in music, art, and literature, German Modernism offers an important new reading of the years of transition between romanticism and modernism. Frisch's study is essential reading for anyone interested in why and how twentieth-century music developed as it did."