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Contemporaries are worried that 1913 may prove to be an unlucky year. Gabriele D’Annunzio gives a friend a copy of his ‘Martyrdom of St. Sabastian’ and in the dedication prefers to date it ‘1912 + 1’. And Arnold Schonberg refuses to mention the unlucky number. Not for nothing had he invented twelve-tone music - a fundamental principle of modern music, born in part of its creator’s fear of the what might come next. The birth of the rational out of the spirit of superstition. In Schonberg’s music the number ‘13’ Does not occur, not even as a rhythm. Not even as a page number. When he realised with horror that the title of his opera about ‘Moses and Aaron’ would have thirteen letters, would have thirteen letters, he crossed out the second ‘A’ from Aaron, and henceforth it was called ‘Moses and Aron.’ And now a whole year fell under the shadow of that unlucky number. Schonberg was born on 13 September -- and he was terrified at the idea of dying on Friday the 13th. It was no good. Arnold Schonberg did in fact die on february the 13th (although in 1913 + 38, or 1951). But 1913 also had a fine surprise in store for him. . . . Page 7

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