Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-409) and index.
Early years in Vienna and Berlin: 1874-1906 -- "Air from another planet": Vienna, 1906-1911 -- "War clouds": Berlin and Vienna, 1911-1918 -- "The path to the new music": 1918-1925 -- Prussian academy of the arts: Berlin, 1926-1933 -- "Driven into paradise": Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, 1933-1943 -- Final years: Los Angeles, 1944-1951