This work disentangles significant aspects of Schoenberg's complex relationship with turn of the century modernism. These essays focus on the two important aspects of the composer's career: the musical works he composed to literary texts and his writings on theoretical, aesthetic and ethical issues, from the mid-1890s to 1916. This work disentangles significant aspects of Schoenberg's complex relationship with turn of the century modernism. These essays focus on two aspects of the composer's career and examine the context of his works composed from the mid-1890s through to 1916.