Episode of Series “The Rise of Modernism in Music 1890-1935”.
Traces the development of Viennese modernism during the period before World War 1, concentrating on the buildings of Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, the paintings of Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, and Gerstl, and the music and paintings of Schoenberg. It also includes a brief extract from Kokoschka’s play, “Murderer, Hope of Women.”