The Commitment to Judaism in the works of Arnold Schoenberg
The opera Moses und Aron is undoubtedly a high point not only in Arnold Schoenberg’s oeuvre, but also in the respectable series of works that deal with religious themes in the 20th century. In its portrayal of the impossibility of expressing the idea of a God who cannot be imagined in words and images, the work is also – seen from the vantage point of our profane present – a frighteningly topical parable for the media age, in which truths are believed especially when they are clothed in colorful images, words and sounds.
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