I always considered Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone, atonal music pretentious noise. But I’ve been forced to change my mind after reading Mark Swed’s enlightening analysis (“Driven to Express Himself,” ...
Gimme some of that ol’ atonal music. It lingers in my ears! Schoenberg and Alban Berg were the genre’s pioneers. Keep your Bach and Chopin, they’re melodic and passe. Gimme some of that ol’ atonal ...
On , at an intimate concert hall in Vienna, a respected local baritone gave the premiere of some early songs for voice and piano by Arnold Schoenberg. Today this music, though written ...
The Forward: How Arnold Schoenberg leapt into the future and created a new musical form
How Arnold Schoenberg leapt into the future and created a new musical form
The Economist: Arnold Schoenberg was one of classical music’s most important rebels
The Washington Post: Who would’ve thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
Who would’ve thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
Forty years ago, a girl in a small Wisconsin town sat by a piano and turned the pages of a song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg for her great-uncle Milton. A local soprano was singing. The setting of 15 ...
“WERE I A gambling man,” Glenn Gould said in 1966, “I would be very inclined to place my money on the prospects for immortality of Arnold Schoenberg above and beyond any other composer who’s lived in ...
“We admit to an occasional musical ray of light,” said the Wiener Zeitung. “But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going ...