The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by E. Randol Schoenberg xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: California Haunting: Mann, Schoenberg, Faustus 1 by Adrian Daub SECTION I. LETTERS, DIARIES, ETC.(1930–1948) Schoenberg to Mann, November 1, 1930 31 Mann to Schoenberg, November 4, 1930 33 Schoenberg to Mann, November 8, 1930 35 Mann to Schoenberg, November 26, 1930 37 Mann’s Diary 38 Schoenberg to Mann, December 28, 1938 42 Mann to Schoenberg, January 9, 1939 44 Schoenberg to Mann, January 15, 1939 46 Mann’s Diary 49 Mann to Schoenberg, July 30, 1943 61 Mann’s Diary 62 Mann to Schoenberg, September 14, 1943 65 Mann to Schoenberg, September 14, 1943 66 Schoenberg to Mann, September 19, 1943 67 Mann’s Diary 69 Mann to Agnes Meyer, September 28, 1944 77 Mann’s Diary 78 Schoenberg to Mann, October 3, 1944 79 Schoenberg to Mann, October 11, 1944 80 Gottfried Bermann-Fischer to Schoenberg, November 6, 1944 81 Mann’s Diary 82 Schoenberg to Gottfried Bermann-Fischer, January 16, 1945 83 Mann’s Diary 84 Mann to Bruno Walter, March 1, 1945 85 Mann’s Diary 87 Schoenberg to Mann, June 6, 1945 89 Mann’s Diary 90 Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, December 30, 1945 91 Schoenberg to Mann, April 24, 1946 95 Mann’s Diary 96 SECTION II. LETTERS, DIARIES, ETC. (1948–1951) Mann to Schoenberg, January 15, 1948 105 Mann to Michael Mann, January 31, 1948 107 Mann to Otto Basler, February 14, 1948 108 Mann’s Diary 109 Schoenberg to Mann, February 1948 110 Hugo Triebsamen, 1948 111 Mann’s Diary 113 Mann to Schoenberg, February 17, 1948 114 Mann’s Diary 116 Mann to Schoenberg, February 24, 1948 118 Mann’s Diary 119 Schoenberg to Mann, February 25, 1948 120 Mann’s Diary 122 Aline Valangin in Unsere Meinung, March 1948 123 Mann to Rudolf Jakob Humm, May 19, 1948 124 Aline Valangin in Die Auslese, April 1948 125 Mann’s Diary 131 Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, September 30, 1948 132 Schoenberg to Gottfried Bermann-Fischer, October 7, 1948 133 Mann’s Diary 134 Mann to Schoenberg, October 13, 1948 135 Gottfried Bermann-Fischer to Schoenberg, October 14, 1948 137 Schoenberg to Mann, October 15, 1948 138 Mann’s Diary 140 Gertrud Schoenberg to Alma Mahler-Werfel, October 19, 1948 141 Schoenberg to Josef Rufer et al., October 20, 1948 143 Mann to Erika Mann, November 6, 1948 145 Gertrud Schoenberg to Alma Mahler-Werfel, November 10, 1948 146 Schoenberg to the Saturday Review of Literature, November 13, 1948 147 Mann’s Diary 150 Mann to the Saturday Review of Literature, December 10, 1948 151 Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, December 11, 1948 154 Mann’s Diary 155 Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno to Eduard Steuermann, December 22, 1948 156 Mann’s Diary 158 Schoenberg’s Note, January 6, 1949 159 Mann’s Diary 161 Manfred Bukofzer to Mann, January 20, 1949 163 Mann to Manfred Bukofzer, January 25, 1949 167 Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, February 8, 1949 169 Mann’s Diary 170 Willi Schuh in Neue Zu¨rcher Zeitung, February 12, 1949 172 Mann’s Diary 178 Der Monat, March 1949 179 H. H. Stuckenschmidt’s Biography of Arnold Schoenberg 181 Schoenberg Undated Notes 182 Leverku¨hn’s Twelve-Tone Goulash 182 Schoenberg’s Fragment on Mann’s “Author’s Note” from the Year 1949 182 Schoenberg’s Note (unpublished) 183 Mann’s Diary 184 Schoenberg in Music Survey (Fall 1949) 186 Schoenberg to H. H. Stuckenschmidt, December 5, 1949 192 Schoenberg to Josef Rufer, December 5, 1949 194 Schoenberg to Kurt List, December 10, 1949 196 Mann’s Diary 198 Mann to Schoenberg, December 19, 1949 199 Schoenberg to Mann (undated and not sent) 201 Mann’s Diary 202 Schoenberg to Mann January 2 and 9, 1950 203 Mann to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, January 9, 1950 204 Mann to Schoenberg, January 12, 1950 205 Mann’s Diary 206 Schoenberg on Wiesengrund, 1950 207 Mann to Schoenberg, April 17, 1951 212 Schoenberg to Mann, April 20, 1951 213 Mann’s Diary 214 Mann to H. H. Stuckenschmidt, October 19, 1951 215 SECTION III. ADDITIONAL READING The Story of The Story of a Novel 219 Richard Hoffmann “Schoenberg Will End Our Friendship”: Concerning the Doctor Faustus Controversy between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann 228 Bernhold Schmid SECTION IV. APPENDICES Appendix I. Arnold Schoenberg, “A Four-Point Program for Jewry” (October 1938) 251 Appendix II. Thomas Mann Radio Address, “Listen, Germans!” (1942) 268 Appendix III. Thomas Mann, “The Fall of the European Jews” (1943) 271 Appendix IV. Arnold Schoenberg, “Composition with Twelve Tones” (1941) 275 Appendix V. Theodor W. Adorno, from Philosophy of New Music (1949) 306 Appendix VI. Thomas Mann, Chapter 22 of Doctor Faustus (1947) 319 Selected Bibliography 329 Works 335