Anton Webern
Letters to Heinrich Jalowetz
Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 7
Edited by Ernst Lichtenhahn, 1999
720 pp., 15.6 x 23.4 cm
ISBN 3-7957-0396-4 (PSB 1007)
EUR 48
Anton Webern and Heinrich Jalowetz were, along with Alban Berg, among the earliest and closest pupils of Arnold Schoenberg. Webern's letters to his friend, later a well-known opera conductor, form a new and fully rounded picture of the composer's personality, thoughts, feelings, and actions. The 300-plus documents in this book (Jalowetz's replies have not survived) cover a period of more than thirty years.