The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951 (Volume 22) (California Studies in 20th-Century Music)

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by  E. Randol Schoenberg (editor)

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The Doctor Faustus Dossier
california studies in 20th-century music
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The Doctor Faustus Dossier
Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann,
and Their Contemporaries, 1930–1951
Edited by
e. randol schoenberg
With an Introduction by Adrian Daub
Translated by Adrian Feuchtwanger and
Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schoenberg, E. Randol, 1966– editor. | Daub, Adrian, writer of
introduction. | Feuchtwanger, Adrian, translator. | Schoenberg,
Barbara Zeisl, translator. | Container of (expression): Schoenberg,
Arnold, 1874–1951. Correspondence. English (Doctor Faustus Dossier)
Selections. | Container of (expression): Mann, Thomas, 1875–1955.
Works. English (Doctor Faustus Dossier) Selections.
Title: The Doctor Faustus dossier : Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann,
and their contemporaries, 1930–1951 / edited by E. Randol
Schoenberg ; with an introduction by Adrian Daub ; translated by
Adrian Feuchtwanger and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg.
Other titles: Apropos Doktor Faustus. English
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] |
Series: California studies in 20th-century music ; 22 | Previously
published in German as: Apropos Doktor Faustus. | Includes
bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: lccn 2017058335 (print) | lccn 2017061106 (ebook) |
i sbn 9780520969155 (ebook) | isbn 9780520296824 (cloth : alk. paper) |
isbn 9780520296831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874–1951—Correspondence. |
Mann, Thomas, 1875–1955—Correspondence. | Mann, Thomas,
1875–1955—Diaries. | Mann, Thomas, 1875–1955. Doktor Faustus.
Classification: lcc ml410.s283 (ebook) | lcc ml410.s283 a4 2018 (print) |
ddc 780.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058335
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Contents
Foreword by E. Randol Schoenberg xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: California Haunting: Mann,
Schoenberg, Faustus 1
by Adrian Daub
section i. letters, diaries, etc. (1930–1948)
Schoenberg to Mann, November 1, 1930 31
Mann to Schoenberg, November 4, 1930 33
Schoenberg to Mann, November 8, 1930 35
Mann to Schoenberg, November 26, 1930 37
Mann’s Diary 38
Schoenberg to Mann, December 28, 1938 42
Mann to Schoenberg, January 9, 1939 44
Schoenberg to Mann, January 15, 1939 46
Mann’s Diary 49
Mann to Schoenberg, July 30, 1943 61
Mann’s Diary 62
Mann to Schoenberg, September 14, 1943 65
Mann to Schoenberg, September 14, 1943 66
Schoenberg to Mann, September 19, 1943 67
Mann’s Diary 69
Mann to Agnes Meyer, September 28, 1944 77
Mann’s Diary 78
Schoenberg to Mann, October 3, 1944 79
Schoenberg to Mann, October 11, 1944 80
Gottfried Bermann-Fischer to Schoenberg,
November 6, 1944 81
Mann’s Diary 82
Schoenberg to Gottfried Bermann-Fischer,
January 16, 1945 83
Mann’s Diary 84
Mann to Bruno Walter, March 1, 1945 85
Mann’s Diary 87
Schoenberg to Mann, June 6, 1945 89
Mann’s Diary 90
Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno,
December 30, 1945 91
Schoenberg to Mann, April 24, 1946 95
Mann’s Diary 96
section ii. letters, diaries, etc. (1948–1951)
Mann to Schoenberg, January 15, 1948 105
Mann to Michael Mann, January 31, 1948 107
Mann to Otto Basler, February 14, 1948 108
Mann’s Diary 109
Schoenberg to Mann, February 1948 110
Hugo Triebsamen, 1948 111
Mann’s Diary 113
Mann to Schoenberg, February 17, 1948 114
Mann’s Diary 116
Mann to Schoenberg, February 24, 1948 118
Mann’s Diary 119
Schoenberg to Mann, February 25, 1948 120
Mann’s Diary 122
Aline Valangin in Unsere Meinung, March 1948 123
Mann to Rudolf Jakob Humm, May 19, 1948 124
Aline Valangin in Die Auslese, April 1948 125
Mann’s Diary 131
Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, September 30, 1948 132
Schoenberg to Gottfried Bermann-Fischer,
October 7, 1948 133
Mann’s Diary 134
Mann to Schoenberg, October 13, 1948 135
Gottfried Bermann-Fischer to Schoenberg,
October 14, 1948 137
Schoenberg to Mann, October 15, 1948 138
Mann’s Diary 140
Gertrud Schoenberg to Alma Mahler-Werfel,
October 19, 1948 141
Schoenberg to Josef Rufer et al., October 20, 1948 143
Mann to Erika Mann, November 6, 1948 145
Gertrud Schoenberg to Alma Mahler-Werfel,
November 10, 1948 146
Schoenberg to the Saturday Review of Literature,
November 13, 1948 147
Mann’s Diary 150
Mann to the Saturday Review of Literature,
December 10, 1948 151
Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno,
December 11, 1948 154
Mann’s Diary 155
Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno to Eduard
Steuermann, December 22, 1948 156
Mann’s Diary 158
Schoenberg’s Note, January 6, 1949 159
Mann’s Diary 161
Manfred Bukofzer to Mann, January 20, 1949 163
Mann to Manfred Bukofzer, January 25, 1949 167
Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, February 8, 1949 169
Mann’s Diary 170
Willi Schuh in Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
February 12, 1949 172
Mann’s Diary 178
Der Monat, March 1949 179
H. H. Stuckenschmidt’s Biography of
Arnold Schoenberg 181
Schoenberg Undated Notes 182
Leverkühn’s Twelve-Tone Goulash 182
Schoenberg’s Fragment on Mann’s “Author’s
Note” from the Year 1949 182
Schoenberg’s Note (unpublished) 183
Mann’s Diary 184
Schoenberg in Music Survey (Fall 1949) 186
Schoenberg to H. H. Stuckenschmidt,
December 5, 1949 192
Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, December 5, 1949 194
Schoenberg to Kurt List, December 10, 1949 196
Mann’s Diary 198
Mann to Schoenberg, December 19, 1949 199
Schoenberg to Mann (undated and not sent) 201
Mann’s Diary 202
Schoenberg to Mann, January 2 and 9, 1950 203
Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno,
January 9, 1950 204
Mann to Schoenberg, January 12, 1950 205
Mann’s Diary 206
Schoenberg on Wiesengrund, 1950 207
Mann to Schoenberg, April 17, 1951 212
Schoenberg to Mann, April 20, 1951 213
Mann’s Diary 214
Mann to H. H. Stuckenschmidt, October 19, 1951 215
section iii. additional reading
The Story of The Story of a Novel 219
Richard Hoffmann
“Schoenberg Will End Our Friendship”:
Concerning the Doctor Faustus Controversy
between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann 228
Bernhold Schmid
section iv. appendices
Appendix I. Arnold Schoenberg, “A Four-Point
Program for Jewry” (October 1938) 251
Appendix II. Thomas Mann Radio Address,
“Listen, Germans!” (1942) 268
Appendix III. Thomas Mann, “The Fall of
the European Jews” (1943) 271