Outside the pole's Munich flat. Speech is heard through the carpet and floorboards of the upstairs flat, explosions through the large glass windowpanes on the street below. What would have brought Shoenberg into this Polish man's company in Munich in the winter of 1918/19? (Note Shoenberg's deteriorating relation between contemporary composers and the public led him to found the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna in 1918). It is likely that the meeting was during the short lived Bavarian Soviet Republic and perhaps the explosions are related to the unrest following the assasination of its moderate first President of the free state, Kurt Eisner, or the street battles (after its transition from free state to Soviet Republic) between Freikorps (white) and its own Red Army. How should Shoenberg have felt about the Republic's expropriation of the beautiful apartments he loved so well to hold private performances in, now being used to house the homeless, curling up beneath his once graced grand pianos? Would he have been more at ease in the company of the shot dead social democrat Eisner, who would not be budged on his fundamental quivering principle; the maintained protection of private property (no looting thug getting carried away on his Wittelsbach revolution). 
Was the emancipator of dissonance listening to the explosions around him and wishing they were jovial fireworks for him to hear himself think over? 

Maciej Shoenberg Shot

F.A Mit>AMitchell Hedges interviews Henry Quag at the Syselus Commune on the Panama Canal. ??? more id needed. 

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