This year Arnold Schönberg would’ve turned 150 years old, one of the most influential composers in the early 20th century.🎵He’s most famous for creating his twelve-tone technique, but these pieces predates that by 12 years. Schönberg lived in a revolutionary time in music history, where harmony got more and more advanced and its traditional rules gradually dissolved.🌫Several composers felt they had to leave tonality altogether, and the result can be heard here.🎵Schönberg composed his first atonal music already in 1908, in some songs and the 2nd string quartet, but here he not only abandons tonality - they range in length between 25 seconds and 1,5 minutes, extremely far away from the most large-scale and bombastic late-romantic works of the time, and long melodic lines have been substituted for melodic fragments, if any melody at all. He wrote the first five in a rush of inspiration in one day in February 1911, and added the last one, with its shimmering pianissimo chords, after learning about Gustav Mahler’s death in May that same year.🪦Now, I think these little gems should be thought of as a tasting menu - six small dishes with flavour combinations you never would’ve thought of, which should be enjoyed with an open mind.🍤✨They make me think of the opening words from that 2nd string quartet, sung by a soprano: "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten - I feel air from another planet"…🪐 The portrait in the beginning of the video is a self-portrait from 1910.🎨 As always, don’t forget to click the thumbs-up and subscribe!😃
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This year Arnold Schönberg would’ve turned 150 years old, one of the most influential composers in the early 20th century.🎵He’s most famous for creating his twelve-tone technique, but these pieces predates that by 12 years. Schönberg lived in a revolutionary time in music history, where harmony got more and more advanced and its traditional rules gradually dissolved.🌫Several composers felt they had to leave tonality altogether, and the result can be heard here.🎵Schönberg composed his first atonal music already in 1908, in some songs and the 2nd string quartet, but here he not only abandons tonality - they range in length between 25 seconds and 1,5 minutes, extremely far away from the most large-scale and bombastic late-romantic works of the time, and long melodic lines have been substituted for melodic fragments, if any melody at all. He wrote the first five in a rush of inspiration in one day in February 1911, and added the last one, with its shimmering pianissimo chords, after learning about Gustav Mahler’s death in May that same year.🪦Now, I think these little gems should be thought of as a tasting menu - six small dishes with flavour combinations you never would’ve thought of, which should be enjoyed with an open mind.🍤✨They make me think of the opening words from that 2nd string quartet, sung by a soprano: "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten - I feel air from another planet"…🪐
The portrait in the beginning of the video is a self-portrait from 1910.🎨
As always, don’t forget to click the thumbs-up and subscribe!😃
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