' There were plenty who would gladly have seen me go under. ... Those who thought in this way were not bad men-though, of course, I could never understand what I had done to make them so malicious, so indignant, so violent and so aggressive' (Arnold Schoenberg)
In the first of two talks
HUGH WOOD considers the course of Schoenberg's career and examines some critical attitudes to him, both during his lifetime and since his death,
