Chapter Twenty-One. Wrong-Note Rag

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Musical Examples xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Abbreviations xix
7. Introduction: Schoeck and the Swiss 1
8. Chapter One. Childhood and Youth 13
9. Chapter Two. Wolf amidst the Sheep 22
10. Chapter Three. Leipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little Moustache 26
11. Chapter Four. Back in the Fold 32
12. Chapter Five. Hermann Hesse, via the Dentist 41
13. Chapter Six. Look Back in Melancholy 49
14. Chapter Seven. Chamber Music 54
15. Chapter Eight. The Art of Counterpoint 57
16. Chapter Nine. Busoni 65
17. Chapter Ten. The Picture on the Wall 73
18. Chapter Eleven. Touch of Venus 78
19. Chapter Twelve. Silent Bronze 82
20. Chapter Thirteen. Sucking Sweet Folly 88
21. Chapter Fourteen. Self Portrait, with Sandwich 95
22. Chapter Fifteen. Elegy 112
23. Chapter Sixteen. Goodbye to Geneva 117
24. Chapter Seventeen. The Bee in the Rose 122
25. Chapter Eighteen. Raging Queen 128
26. Chapter Nineteen. Storms in the Pigeon Loft 137
27. Chapter Twenty. Into the Vortex 147
28. Chapter Twenty-One. Wrong-Note Rag 155
29. Chapter Twenty-Two. Hildebill 166
30. Chapter Twenty-Three. Variations and Fugue on an Age-Old Theme 173
31. Chapter Twenty-Four. Put to the Wheel 180
32. Chapter Twenty-Five. Gisela 184
33. Chapter Twenty-Six. Lost in the Stars 188
34. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Whores and Madonnas 195
35. Chapter Twenty-Eight “. . . he can write music all right . . .” 204
36. Chapter Twenty-Nine. Tea with (Ms.) Hitler 215
37. Chapter Thirty. Aryanizing Music 223
38. Chapter Thirty-One. Arms and the Man 234
39. Chapter Thirty-Two. Castles in the Air 245
40. Chapter Thirty-Three. Goering’s Bullshit 251
41. Chapter Thirty-Four. Collapse 262
42. Chapter Thirty-Five. The People at Home 265
43. Chapter Thirty-Six. The Reckoning 271
44. Chapter Thirty-Seven. Transfigured Summer Nights 276
45. Chapter Thirty-Eight. Silent Lights 280
46. Chapter Thirty-Nine. Fair Measure 288
47. Chapter Forty. Rather Nice Horn 293
48. Chapter Forty-One. Sleepless in Wollishofen 300
49. Chapter Forty-Two. Echoes and Elegies 303
50. Chapter Forty-Three. Running on Empty 308
51. Epilogue 317
52. Othmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and Discography 327
53. Notes 383
54. Bibliography 403
55. Index 413