Arnold Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian compose… Read Full Bio ↴Arnold Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. After his move to the United States in 1934, he altered the spelling of his surname from Schönberg to Schoenberg.
Schönberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, has been one of the most influential of 20th-century musical thought. Many European and American composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whereas others have passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi Party in Austria, Schönberg's works were labelled as degenerate music.
Schönberg was known early in his career for simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify innovations in atonality (although Schönberg himself detested that term) that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schönberg developed the twelve-tone technique, an influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea.
Schönberg was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition; his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Egon Wellesz, and later John Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner, and other prominent musicians.
Many of Schönberg's practices, including the formalization of compositional method, and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century. His often polemical views of music history and aesthetics were crucial to many significant 20th-century musicologists and critics, including Theodor W. Adorno, Charles Rosen and Carl Dahlhaus, as well as the pianists Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, Eduard Steuermann and Glenn Gould.
Schönberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, has been one of the most influential of 20th-century musical thought. Many European and American composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whereas others have passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi Party in Austria, Schönberg's works were labelled as degenerate music.
Schönberg was known early in his career for simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify innovations in atonality (although Schönberg himself detested that term) that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schönberg developed the twelve-tone technique, an influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea.
Schönberg was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition; his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Egon Wellesz, and later John Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner, and other prominent musicians.
Many of Schönberg's practices, including the formalization of compositional method, and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century. His often polemical views of music history and aesthetics were crucial to many significant 20th-century musicologists and critics, including Theodor W. Adorno, Charles Rosen and Carl Dahlhaus, as well as the pianists Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, Eduard Steuermann and Glenn Gould.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op.42: Molto allegro
Arnold Schönberg Lyrics
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Tove "O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen leise gleiten" Oh, wenn des Mondes Strahlen leise gleiten, Und Friede sich …
Tove "Sterne jubeln das Meer es leuchtet" Sterne jubeln, das Meer, es leuchtet, Presst an die Küste se…
Tove "Sterne jubeln, das Meer, es leuchtet" Sterne jubeln, das Meer, es leuchtet, Presst an die Küste se…
Waldemar "Nun dämpft die Dämmerung jeden Ton" Nun dämpft die Dämm'rung jeden Ton Von Meer und Land, Die fl…
Waldemar "Ros! Mein Ros! Was schleist du so träg" Roß! Mein Roß! Was schleichst du so träg? Nein, ich seh's,…
Waldemar "So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes Thron nicht" So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes Thron nicht, Wie die Welt…
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LisztChopin Liebestraum
This really is stunning... Schoenberg's orchestral colouring.... Or perhaps his intentional lack of it. With music like this you must stop hearing it, but seeing it! What an excellent inventor Schoenberg was!
A.M. Armstrong
I like this iteration of op. 42 along with Mitsuko Uchida's work with Boulez. Both get the tempo right: frenetic where needed, but this has slightly more suppleness to Uchida's crystalline structuring of phrases. Sublime!
A.M. Armstrong
Polling and Abbado did fantastic work with Nono's 'Offerte Serene'..that telepathy is audible here too.
Chris Collins
I like it. The dissonance crackles with intensity and the melodies spurt out in sections. He has influenced many movie composers...I hear Leonard Rosenman's "Rebel Without a Cause" a little...interesting.
Ilir Llukaci
The Pollini Schonberg solo piano dg album was one of my favorites.
Thomas Turner
What stunning transparent score this is. Pollini is brilliant and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra lives up to their reputation.
Selim Güre
Sounds like a masterpiece played backwards.
40 Hurts
Forwards, backwards, upside-down, and backwards/upside-down. Or, more formally, prime, retrograde, inversion, retrograde inversion. And it is indeed a masterpiece!
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