Foreword

Introduction: Six Little Piano Pieces

BRIDGE PASSAGE, 1874-1908

1. First Loves

2. Transfigured Night

3. Dawn: The Gurre-Lieder

4. Berlin Cabaret

5. Coming Apart

6. An Inner Compulsion

A NEW FORM OF EXPRESSION, 1909-13

7. Farben

8. Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra

9. Paths to (and in) Erwartung

10. Wrong Notes

11. Six Little Pieces

12. Theory of Harmony

13. Pierrot

14. Die glückliche Hand

SILENCE, ORDER, AND TERROR, 1914-33

15. Incident at Mattsee

16. Critics and Disciples

17. A Clearing in the Forest: Twelve-Tone Music

18. Satires

19. Catastrophe

20. Moses and Arnold

AMERICA, 1933-51

21. Exodus

22. 1940: Stravinsky and Schoenberg

23. Games

24. On Being Short

25. Piano Concerto

26. Death and Rebirth

27. Seventy-fifth Birthday

AFTERLIFE

28. Death and Rebirth II

29. Writings about Schoenberg

30. Last Notes: Portrait in Retrograde

Suggested Readings

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index