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This chapter focuses on music. Its exemplary modernist is Arnold Schoenberg, whose musical purism is contrasted especially with the eclecticism of Igor Stravinsky. This contrast presents Schoenberg as being aligned with Karl Kraus’s concept of purity in language, which offers a way to link Schoenberg’s way of understanding and composing music to painters and writers in the previous chapters. Schoenberg is aligned with Beckett and Kafka, with Kandinsky and Egon Schiele. In his eclecticism (which can also be understood as Romantic subjectivity) Stravinsky is aligned with Joyce and Picasso.
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D. Dowden, S. (2020). Music as Natural Magic. In: Modernism and Mimesis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53134-8_4
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