Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Schoeck and the Swiss
- 1 Childhood and Youth
- 2 Wolf amidst the Sheep
- 3 Leipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little Moustache
- 4 Back in the Fold
- 5 Hermann Hesse, via the Dentist
- 6 Look Back in Melancholy
- 7 Chamber Music
- 8 The Art of Counterpoint
- 9 Busoni
- 10 The Picture on the Wall
- 11 Touch of Venus
- 12 Silent Bronze
- 13 Sucking Sweet Folly
- 14 Self Portrait, with Sandwich
- 15 Elegy
- 16 Goodbye to Geneva
- 17 The Bee in the Rose
- 18 Raging Queen
- 19 Storms in the Pigeon Loft
- 20 Into the Vortex
- 21 Wrong-Note Rag
- 22 Hildebill
- 23 Variations and Fugue on an Age-Old Theme
- 24 Put to the Wheel
- 25 Gisela
- 26 Lost in the Stars
- 27 Whores and Madonnas
- 28 “… he can write music all right…”
- 29 Tea with (Ms.) Hitler
- 30 Aryanizing Music
- 31 Arms and the Man
- 32 Castles in the Air
- 33 Goering's Bullshit
- 34 Collapse
- 35 The People at Home
- 36 The Reckoning
- 37 Transfigured Summer Nights
- 38 Silent Lights
- 39 Fair Measure
- 40 Rather Nice Horn
- 41 Sleepless in Wollishofen
- 42 Echoes and Elegies
- 43 Running on Empty
- Epilogue
- Othmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and Discography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
35 - The People at Home
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Schoeck and the Swiss
- 1 Childhood and Youth
- 2 Wolf amidst the Sheep
- 3 Leipzig, Munich, and an Awful Little Moustache
- 4 Back in the Fold
- 5 Hermann Hesse, via the Dentist
- 6 Look Back in Melancholy
- 7 Chamber Music
- 8 The Art of Counterpoint
- 9 Busoni
- 10 The Picture on the Wall
- 11 Touch of Venus
- 12 Silent Bronze
- 13 Sucking Sweet Folly
- 14 Self Portrait, with Sandwich
- 15 Elegy
- 16 Goodbye to Geneva
- 17 The Bee in the Rose
- 18 Raging Queen
- 19 Storms in the Pigeon Loft
- 20 Into the Vortex
- 21 Wrong-Note Rag
- 22 Hildebill
- 23 Variations and Fugue on an Age-Old Theme
- 24 Put to the Wheel
- 25 Gisela
- 26 Lost in the Stars
- 27 Whores and Madonnas
- 28 “… he can write music all right…”
- 29 Tea with (Ms.) Hitler
- 30 Aryanizing Music
- 31 Arms and the Man
- 32 Castles in the Air
- 33 Goering's Bullshit
- 34 Collapse
- 35 The People at Home
- 36 The Reckoning
- 37 Transfigured Summer Nights
- 38 Silent Lights
- 39 Fair Measure
- 40 Rather Nice Horn
- 41 Sleepless in Wollishofen
- 42 Echoes and Elegies
- 43 Running on Empty
- Epilogue
- Othmar Schoeck: Concise Work Catalogue and Discography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
Summary
Some two weeks after his collapse, Schoeck was moved back home. This was just at the moment when a production of his Venus in Bern under Kurt Rothenbühler was receiving excellent reviews, especially for its Horace, Libero de Luca. While this presumably cheered Schoeck up, he was too sick to attend in person. He further missed the world premiere of his Gesangfest im Frühling on 12 April, also in Bern under Rothenbühler. Paul Rossier, Schoeck's doctor, ascribed his heart attack to excessive smoking and to rotting teeth roots. Schoeck had long had an inordinate fear of the dentist, and his refusal to look after his teeth had now had drastic consequences (despite his fierce opposition, the rotting teeth were pulled by the end of the year). Nor was he the only invalid at home, for Hilde too became ill in late March and was put in the bedroom next to her husband's. She was up again before him, however. Not until 1 May did his doctors let him get out of bed: “From today onwards I am allowed to measure out with shuffling steps my immeasurable space for the first time … that makes roughly two or three steps in the room, and still I prefer to sit down soon after this particular achievement,” he wrote to Rüeger. He was as yet without a piano, for it was another fortnight before he could go down to his music room on the ground floor.
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- Othmar SchoeckLife and Works, pp. 265 - 270Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009