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2 days ago · Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. Among the first modernist composers to write music of dense motivic relations saturating the musical texture , he propounded concepts like developing variation , the emancipation of the dissonance , and ...
2 days ago · In the July 15 New York Times, Rebecca Schmid writes, “The composer Arnold Schönberg revolutionized the course of Western classical music. By dismantling the tonal system of major and minor keys as he self-consciously placed himself in the German tradition, he is also one of the 20th century’s most polarizing figures. The 150th anniversary ...
2 days ago · Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century, was born in Vienna in 1874. Sony Classical is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the great composer’s birth with the reissue of 20 CDs of recordings from CBS/American Columbia. The company was a pioneer in documenting Schoenberg’s achievements and already demonstrated that […]
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4 days ago · Arnold Schoenberg did something similar, conceiving his Opus 5, Pelleas und Melisande, in a thoroughly symphonic vein, bundling a picturesque recounting of the individual moments of Maurice Maeterlinck’s eponymous play in one movement lasting three quarters of an hour without interruption. The story is familiar to us from a stage work by Claude Debussy as well.
5 hours ago · In this sense, modern music composers, such as Arnold Schönberg, denote new possibilities of music expression and music experience. The search for new forms, structures, and sounds is the context in which the concept of nonidentity comes into play.
4 days ago · In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits.
3 days ago · The experience of Schoenberg’s music is comparable, for me at least, to reading Ulysses in Basque; there are rules that govern his compositions, but the effect on all but the academic’s ear is barely distinguishable from anarchy. I can’t claim special knowledge of the code that unlocks Schoenberg’s music.
