Arnold Schoenberg - Notturno for Strings and Harp (1895-96) [Score-Video]

[@Zavendea]

I had always heard that Schönberg’s pre-atonal works were beautiful, and that he obviously had incredible knowledge about traditional harmony (he wrote a fundamental book on it, after all) but I had never heard them before! Incredible!

[@josepmir4530]

Check out verklarte nacht

[@jimjarnagin5344]

Zavendea Same here...so glad we’re finally able to hear all these works that we could only read about before the web! 😊

[@jonasstary5895]

A really recomend to you Schoenbergs Gurrelieder.. :) Enjoy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nInYeIKCoMmhiLM

[@LeonardoLLeuci]

I’m a firm believer that all of his works are beautiful, but it’s just different types of beautiful 😄

[@Eorzat]

Knowing that these works exist, it always triggers me a bit when people say that Schoenberg wasn’t a good composer or that he didn’t know what he was doing.

[@MrUrklasd]

This composition literally melts your heart. Fantastic

[@Vingul]

*Literally* -- wow.

[@KR-mm4el]

it isn't that hot of a composition, come on

[@BillGraham60s]

I never realized he composed like this. It just goes to show that music history might emphasize the most iconoclastic aspects of composers to the exclusion of other significant accomplishments that deserve equal recognition.

[@mit.3254]

Beautiful! Before now, I'd never heard any of Schoenberg's non-atonal music. Thanks for posting this.

[@rudigerk]

check out the "Gurrelieder"

[@rudigerk]

Here Part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nInYeIKCoMmhiLM

[@spacevspitch4028]

I think it's hard for some to sense it but he really put the same heart and passion in his serial work as he did in something like this. It's just not as easy to feel that passion through the dissonance.

[@spacevspitch4028]

@@ignacioclerici5341 Um....ok.

[@KinkyLettuce]

oof you better watch your mouth. Some die hard academic snobs will bite you if you value his serial works any less than his tonal works

[@jackfletcher1000]

Listening to this, it makes me sad that he composed mostly crap and he was capable of such beauty.

[@zackl7467]

@@jackfletcher1000 I used to think this. Then I listened to the second string quartet and the Piano Concerto.

[@jackfletcher1000]

@@zackl7467 I,ll giv,em a go, thanks

[@schonkable]

Such gorgeous music, and this was written even before “Transfigured Night”!

[@stavros.zarzonis]

This breathtaking masterpiece, was a perfect choice for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2024, leaving the audience in awe of its profound artistry. It beautifully captures the essence of emotion and elegance with its haunting melodies and intricate harmonies! Hopefuly, it received a worldwide recognition it truly deserves!

[@markcox5385]

I wish my hand-written scores looked so beautiful!

[@markfurnell6748]

Beethoven's scores were 10 times messier...but the music 1000 times better than any of Schoenberg's trash.

[@marioi.carrillo6264]

@@markfurnell6748 Well that was dumb.

[@PerryVlog1]

Mark Furnell everything right at home?

[@markfurnell6748]

@@marioi.carrillo6264 is there any music you don't like?

[@markfurnell6748]

@@PerryVlog1 is there any music you don't like?

[@matthewmusicmedia5947]

The piece reminds me of the reason I love music.

[@Bashkii]

This is so moving!! Thanks for posting!! 👏👏

[@tastymouse]

Beautiful, tonal piece!

[@noiselesspatient]

Ravishing! And so close to the middle mvt of Elgar's Serenade for Strings written 3 years earlier, I wonder if Arnie knew it? Adagio of Bruckner 7 too?

[@cobyobrien9036]

Not the sort of music Schoenberg was noted for, but beautiful nontheless

[@paxwallacejazz]

Look Schoenberg's break with tonality has it's roots in tonality itself just like Kandinsky's break with representationalism has it's roots in the history of painting. Bach let the cat outa the bag by expending his considerable resources exploiting that new fangled tuning system that for the 1st time allowed a composer to write music that can freely move from tonal center to tonal center as well as integrate those pesky notes outside the key in melodies and chords and scales. After Bach the entire history of Western Art Music became a high speed composer driven power dive into higher and higher levels of chromatic density. All your favorite composers are the culprits. Mozart Beethovan Brahms Chopin List Wagner, Mhaler Debussy and Ravel etc. all finding new and more expressive ways to include more and more notes outside the key untill a kind of point of saturation was reached about 1905. Schoenberg and Stravinsky and their followers was inevitable. So all the famous music from western history contain the seeds of atonality so to speak.

[@pantufafelpuda]

paxwallacejazz 13

[@miguelfontesmeira]

Great comment

[@0hn0haha]

Chromatic density increasing is no excuse - the rules of classical harmony are not perfect, because our understanding of music is not perfect, but it's pretty obvious that the serialist stuff just doesn't work - even without harmonies clashing, just the melodic restraints are ridiculous for one - and we have a natural system in our bodies/minds to recognize what for lack of a better term I'll call "beauty," so abandoning it makes no sense, if you want to make music. If you want to make/create an effect, ok, cool. Shostakovich wanted people to feel sick inside in the 2nd movement of the 8th quartet, and we do, that makes sense. Why the hell must so much modern composition make you feel that way though? Music is also something we listen to so that we can feel better, whether through sad, melancholy, bittersweet, grand, inspiring, patriotic, or various other types of music. After all, at it's root, music is our human attempt to pass on emotion - it comes from the rising and falling cadences of speech, most likely. That's also what Rite of Spring gets wrong - why would a village be that "out of tune"? (which is part of the effect Stravinsky was going for, as he explains) Sure, they might not be professional musicians, and the tone of the folk instruments is different, but music is innately understood by all people. It may take a second to adjsut to a foreign tuning or scale, or comfort with longer tension (dissonance) leading to resolution, but leading to a resolution is pretty damn important in most music. I just finished a presentation on 20th century - modern music, and let me tell you, have the audience wanted to off themselves by the middle of the presentation. Luckily, a few modern composers have seemingly returned to having "beauty" as a muse. We might disagree on how beautiful something is, or even whether something is beautiful or not, but in general, most people will agree it is real, it exists, and even what things are beautiful. So maybe it's not a bad term. When given the context of Shostakovich String quartet no 8, or even Rite of Spring, most people can bear it, and even understand it, but the masses don't recognize either piece as beautiful. Why? Just because they are too accultured to western harmonic systems? Perhaps to some degree, but at least equally, people have a natural, innate sense of beauty - which is why the sound of a 3:2 ratio in vibrations is so beautiful (that would be a fifth, roughly, btw). The golden ratio, for instance, is something we have found to relatively accurately describe the most "pleasing" proportion to the vast majority of people Our understanding of beauty is limited, but while as Francis bacon said - there is no beauty that hath not some strangeness about it's proportion - we all have an innate sense of it. Disregard it, as a musician, at your own peril. It's what killed classical music - beautiful music, speaking objectively because I mean music that a majority and plurality of people will understand and likely enjoy when i say beautiful music, stopped being written, and only old stuff and modernist garbage is now played in most concert halls. We should pursue beauty once more, en masse. The majority isn't always wrong, but they don't have politics in this fight or anything. They jsut understand what is beautiful.

[@lionsmaine1238]

@@0hn0haha Well knowing the history behind the big “M” Modernism in classical music makes things much clearer as to why lots of mid 20th century music sounds the way it does. Also, if you’ve only restricted yourself to avant-garde new music circles in your experience of contemporary music, I can see why you think only a few people have returned to “beauty” but definitely in America things like tonality and conventional concepts of beauty in the contemporary music scene aren’t uncommon at all.

[@lionsmaine1238]

@@0hn0haha Even so, “beauty” is not necessarily the focus of all art and I don’t believe it should. Like you said, music and art in general is used as a means for emotional expression. So is every emotion that you experience a beautiful one? Definitely not, and so art can reflect that.

[@stellarstarvibe]

Seine Musik ist großartig. Ich kann nicht glauben dass ich das jetzt erst so richtig entdecke...

[@jwesterbeke]

This piece reminds me of Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz due to the fact that both composers wrote atonal music later in their careers but wrote beatiful, lush, and romantic tonal music in their early periods(that’s not to say that their atonal music isn’t beautiful).

[@neilsaunders6009]

Do you know Webern's "Im Sommerwind"? That's wonderful, too!

[@BleedingEdgeOfProgress]

Every Schönberg hater should be made to listen to this, without knowing who it is....

[@tarikeld11]

I don't think that anybody hates Schönberg, many people just don't enjoy atonal music.

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

The point is that someone with such a talent mutilated it so utterly. I love Schoenberg up to and including the free atonal period (the pieces for Orchestra, the first chamber symphony) but when he got serial, he lost so very much.

[@davidbrant390]

@@greatmomentsofopera7170 fuck you

[@tarikeld11]

@@davidbrant390 What is wrong with you?

[@davidbrant390]

@@tarikeld11 Serialphobes

[@ParischneiderMUSIC]

This is my first time hearing this and its perfect. Schoenberg was a master of harmony!

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

Extraordinaria pieza de Schoenberg que remarca lo clasico y su hermosa evolucion hacia un futuro distinto en su musica

[@arcobow97]

What a sublime masterpiece, it’s a shame it’s not more famous, but I think that’s what makes it so special. I wonder if this may have been intended as the slow movement of a possible concerto he might’ve been writing early on…

[@ManuelTorres-ez2pv]

Como Picasso: maestria suprema en cada etapa.. El rasgo infalible de los genios....

[@idroj6566]

Exacto, conoció y dominó como muy pocos los secretos de la harmonia y de ahí que pudiera "romperla", creando un lenguaje nuevo.... La comparativa con Picasso es muy buena.

[@kratospchbus7625]

En ambos casos se fueron a la mierda xdxdxd

[@radluzaoriginal]

@@kratospchbus7625 por qué?

[@kratospchbus7625]

@@radluzaoriginal che obras más culeras no pudieron hacer cuando empezaron a creerse elitistas super intelectuales o juntarse con comunistas

[@radluzaoriginal]

@@kratospchbus7625 Hablas de otros movimientos como la música aleatoria iniciada por John Cage?

[@quentind2458]

Quelle découverte ! C'est magnifique

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

I never knew about this piece. Thanks for posting. It is an interesting precursor to Transfigured Night.

[@jackfletcher1000]

Hello George from, rainy Ireland. i have given some of them a chance and several listening,s. some have grabbed me and others have not but I will keep trying.

[@josechrist3948]

What a beautiful music writing!

[@BenedettaSaglietti]

Thanks for uploading!

[@restoreamericanvalues3380]

The form of this composition hits the Lucas series [3+4=7+4= 11+7=18], but as [8, 8, 1=17] , dev @ 18, harp arpeggio @ 29 =[18+11], with 4-bar recap @ 44-47 + 3 measure cadenza. The form is perfect. Lucas series is similar to Fibonacci in calculating the golden mean .618, particular in the higher numbers. The measure structure in musical composition are a rough approximation. From 1904, my favorites is "Verklarte Nacht"...for String Sextet (arranged for String Orchestra, later on). Schoenberg wrote a lot of tonal music prior to going 12-tone so did Webern (check the Im Sommerwind Idyll also from 1904.)

[@abelbaptista6162]

OMG 😭 So beautiful ! ❤

[@RivièreChalumeauCauchemarLOL]

Beautiful ❤

[@Pookie1-q2w]

Beautiful

[@marcelasantos347]

Que música ótima de se escutar durante a manhã

[@camillebouchard6436]

Magnifique !

[@8moltovivace8]

Beautiful 😍

[@Sanctorum1]

A man who perfectly understood beauty...and ugliness

[@rachsky1224]

I assume with ugliness you are referring to dodecaphony. Quite a shame

[@Sanctorum1]

@@rachsky1224 To be honest...i love dodecaphony and all atonal music. The point of my comment is that great men go beyond the eternal fight tonal/atonal

[@rachsky1224]

@@Sanctorum1 ok, by ugliness here you intended non tonal music..

[@Sanctorum1]

@@rachsky1224 Well, yes...I find it "ugly" compared to tonal...But this doesn't make it less interesting

[@JamesZ32100]

@@rachsky1224 I guess he used the term ugly as a way how people who hate Schoenberg's music would describe them, not literally ugly in his own opinion

[@insertpseudonym5311]

i have to admit, i was skeptical as i clicked on this since i've never been a fan of schoenberg. i only know him for his atonal stuff, which honestly isn't my favorite, so imagine my surprise-- my expectations were subverted to say the least, and in the most wonderful way.

[@paxwallacejazz]

If my comment raised any curiosity then you can scratch that itch by typing in (The Unanswered Question) and watching any or all of 6 lectures on the evolution of western music from Bach to Schoenberg and beyond.

[@topolinik]

Sono senza parole....

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Nice. Reminds me of the Lento assai from Beethoven's Op. 135.

[@TheCitybike]

Wonderful

[@Tachickoma]

Sublime.

[@AnthonyLeighDunstan]

I think it’s wonderful people exclaiming their adoration for this piece (and Schoenberg) and confounding their own presuppositions of him but it’s also a little sad his masterful handling of ensemble writing, form, voice leading, counterpoint, material development, tone colour, texture, and harmonic rhythm and development couldn’t be discerned by these same people in his atonal works when, for anyone who has studied even a bar of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire for instance, these things are embedded in the man himself. Schönberg himself never went anywhere, and you’re all intelligent listeners to secretly know that deep down. Only, I think “taste” plays a huge part in what we remain open to. I wonder whether after this experience, that you would all go back to Schönberg’s entire oeuvre and hear for yourselves how Schönberg never lost whatever it is you think he lost... It also insinuates a kind of stylistic hierarchy that because the populous would find this tonal piece more pleasing than Schönberg’s atonal works, and that one might be surprised that Schönberg “could write like this [and so why didn’t he?] just because it’s more pleasing, doesn’t make his atonal music any less. Am I gauging that correctly? Perhaps I’m reading into it too much.

[@wielandwittmann9832]

Ergreifend. Trifft voll ins Herz. 👍 👍 👍 👏 👏 👏 🙋

[@normanyoung7846]

His early works are just so beautiful, but I knew nothing of them for ages. When I heard Verklärte Nacht for the first time I was blown away by it, and I decided he was a wonderful composer after all, capable of reaching a human's most inner soul. This work - only discovered late - was written a few years earlier in 1895 is a real tear breaker. Such a pity he devoted his later life to a music style that makes a lot of people cry (but for a different reason !)

[@GUILLOM]

No

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

wich version of Sibelius did he use

[@matiasnorenamuriel7069]

Adorno was right; Schoenberg's 12-tone music was needed to redefine the aesthetics of the new century, but damn, he certainly created something special in his more tonally-oriented works.

[@aviramspies]

yeah, but don't you think that any other late 19th century could have written this? as beautiful as it is...

[@neilsaunders6009]

Why was Adorno right? You can't just assert these things and leave them hanging in the air!

[@raymundoandrade928]

La belleza atemporal

[@SmeagolTheBeagle]

This man has a soul as beautiful as the stars and a genius as magical as god himself.

[@Gorboduc]

I was expecting something from that third bar from the end, but it passed without incident.

[@sanjosemike3137]

The very best work written as a "partially" atonal work is the Berg Violin Concerto. I realize it is not completely atonal. But it is close in some sections...and still manages to be beautiful. Nobody else has ever accomplished this. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Wozzeck too and the lyric suite and Lulu.

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Christopher Bryce it’s never been a piece that has moved me though I adore many other Berg scores. I will keep trying.

[@sanjosemike3137]

@Christopher Bryce While you are at it, try the 3rd movement of the Barber Piano Sonata. It starts out with a tone row of two measures in the bass, and builds upon it. It's quite wonderful. I've played it myself. I am not so "great" on the fugue of the last movement, but I can sort of stumble through it. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@neilsaunders6009]

Franz Schmidt wrote some amazing music on the borderline between tonality and atonality in his second opera, "Fredigundis", and there are atonal passages in his Fourth Symphony: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3qkq56Fa5WmjcU

[@UYEcudeSobieski]

Belle surprise !

[@klop4228]

Some people say 'modern' artists just can't make nice art. Schoenberg completely disproves this. And shows that this is nonsense.

[@blobs5440]

Right. But that doesn't disprove that the majority of modern artists are crap.

[@klop4228]

@@blobs5440 I mean, it does. It says nothing about modern art, though it has its fans, and the way I see it, it's perfectly justified. I mean, you don't have to like it, but there's certainly artistic skill and validity to modern art, and there's no argument against that that holds any water.

[@blobs5440]

@@klop4228 Throwing paint from buckets onto a canvas takes no skill. Sending your unmade bed to an art gallery takes no skill. Writing down random notes on a sheet takes no skill. Mashing notes on a keyboard like a toddler takes no skill. Attempting to justify the lame attempts made by the majority of modern artists to be "deep" by saying there's "certainly artistic skill and validity to the art" is absolutely absurd.

[@klop4228]

@@blobs5440 It's a good thing not all modern artists are doing such minimalistic things, then. There are extensive writings on Schoenberg's later works - may by Schoenberg himself, many by others - that show that either he was good at what he did (though perhaps not to everyone's taste) or he put a bunch of random notes on a sheet of paper and spent ages reverse engineering sense onto it. The latter seems unlikely. Seriously, even reading about the twelve-tone system proves that there was some effort put into it. Listening to Schoenberg's tonal music (Verklaerte Nacht is popular among them, but the Chamber Symphonies, the Suite in the Old Style, and then the First Quartet will also do) and comparing with later works (Third and Fourth Quartets, Violin or Piano Concert, etc.) makes it clear that it's all the same type of music. (This ignoring the fact that this isn't really 'modern' music anymore, some of it being over a century old.) Shostakovich is a much less controversial place to look. Literally any of his symphonies (though they are of varying quality). Could also listen to James MacMillan, Eric Whitacre, Jonathan Dove, Thea Musgrave, John Adams, (or hundreds of others) if you want actual living composers whose modern music is worth listening to. John Cage is the only notable one I really know of who made music of which it could be argued that it's music at all.

[@blobs5440]

@@klop4228 I agree for the most part. Shostakovich is one of my favorites. I also like Stravinsky. Cage is the perfect example of an overrated artist, though. But-here's one of the biggest problems with our society. Those who are avant garde and create trash art are always the ones people focus on. They are the ones that people always spend money on. People with actual talent are always looked over. And the majority of people know that modern rap and pop is shit, but the pretentious retards that are in charge of a lot of the industry don't care.

[@eduheloucomposer]

CONGRATS THANKS! OBRIGADO!

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

Wow, I didn’t realise this was hand written until halfway through.

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

Has the vibes of Vaughan Williams. Especially in the orchestration.

[@MCMeru]

Interesting, personally it rather reminded me of dvorak :D

[@janpaulwolff9310]

In what way?

[@karlpoppins]

Why so hateful of Schoenberg? What did he do to deserve a comparison with the untalented R.V. Williams?

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

@@karlpoppins I'm not hateful towards Schoenberg. He's a great composer. I just found similarities with RVW whom I adore as well.

[@karlpoppins]

@Christopher Bryce Right, RVW gets you all the hot choir chicks, whereas Shoenberg is good music. I feel ya.

[@monsieur_doggo3030]

Is there a different name for this piece? I cant seem to find it on spotify

[@GNGianopoulos]

It's not very well known and I'm not sure there are any commercial recordings.

[@diogobarata6346]

Can anybody tell me the chords please? I don’t know any music theory :(

[@riccardovalente3260]

Wow

[@POOPNUGGET19]

This reminds me of LEGO Batman...

[@ЕкатеринаГомзикова-б1э]

Прекрасно🌹❤️

[@alexnavarro819]

10-Namuncura 🎉🎉🎉

[@orgue2999]

Composed before Mahler's symphony n°5

[@rafaelmoralesbvv4411]

3:03

[@satyu131089]

Beautiful work! Almost sounds like Rachmaninoff rather than Schoenberg.

[@eduardomartin323232]

Arnold Schoenberg before 12 tone row

[@gavinfarkas283]

I'm reminded of the Mahler allegretto

[@ClergetMusic]

You certainly mean “adagietto”

[@gavinfarkas283]

@@ClergetMusic yes, I have no idea why auto fill decided that I meant that and I neglected to catch that.

[@ClergetMusic]

@@gavinfarkas283 no worries, I know the masterpiece you are talking about!

[@Ivan_1791]

Bello.

[@jgesselberty]

Beautiful and so sad that his atonal works overshadow this and other early works. There are few people honest enough to admit that they would rather listen to a well played version of Happy Birthday To You than listen to some of his later works. I guess I am one of them.

[@whiteyplaysmighty8503]

There is something very beautiful in his atonal work. Verklartenacht is a good example of this. When he first experimented with 12 tone rows it sounded a little clumsy, but the later works with them are definitely something worth listening to.

[@pierrelandy9755]

You should listen to Pierrot Lunaire before writing such non-sense

[@james.housego]

@@whiteyplaysmighty8503 Verklartenacht isnt 12 tone...

[@whiteyplaysmighty8503]

@@james.housego it's not written using 12 tone rows, but it IS atonal/polytonal.

[@james.housego]

@@whiteyplaysmighty8503 it isnt atonal, last time i checked it still has a sense of tonality. Meaning it isnt atonal

[@archangecamilien1879]

Wouldn't have expected this from Schoenberg...wow...my type of piece, even though I don't care much for atonal music...

[@tanvi6033]

0:40

[@pedrofuster9161]

So beautiful

[@chiro9494]

2:00

[@louischen89]

Wow, i expected this piece to be atonal, but instead i hav this beautiful piece of music, unexpected!

[@23BET23]

Give me SQ#2 and beyond - all day, any day :) Though I do have a super soft spot for op.4

[@davidbrant390]

Such a powerful tearjerker piece. Schoenberg can sure surprise with stuff like this, although I certainly prefer his signature work over his earlier romantic work

[@danielecorbari7033]

"Op." n°...?

[@dacoconutnut9503]

Apparently, this is one of the tonal works Schoenberg didn't assign an opus number, just like his String Quartet No. 0 in D major

[@danielecorbari7033]

@@dacoconutnut9503 thank you da coco nut nut, I'll try to find out more about it

[@user-kz9sg2cx6]

Sounds like Real Music

[@garrysmodsketches]

you are a literal toddler

[@user-kz9sg2cx6]

I am a Man, who just love a Real Music. For Me, "real" Composers are: 1. A. Vivaldi 2. K.F. E. Bach 3. J. S. Bach 4. Richard Strauss 5. J. Brams (+-) 6. Rimsky-Korsakov 7. P. I. Chaikovsky 8. Modest Mussorgsky 9. S. Rachmaninoff 10. I. Stravinsky 11. D. Shostakovich 12. K. Moldobasanov 13. Fikret Amirov (see Ajerbaijan Capriccio by Him) 14. Philip Glass, Legend 15. Unsuk Chin 16. Arvo Part .... And what about you????????????????

[@garrysmodsketches]

@@user-kz9sg2cx6 who..

[@RivièreChalumeauCauchemarLOL]

Just because you dont understand his music, doesnt mean it isnt music

[@gameboy-bt7nk]

Bro definitely had a glow-down

[@WEEBLLOM]

No

[@albertosari2002]

Questo era il giovane Schonberg tardoromantico

[@HotRatsAndTheStooges]

Wow. If only Schoenberg had kept in this style.

[@bruno1960ful]

in jazz many people think the same about Coltrane, but it' s the tension toward the unknown.the constant forward motion that makes his early music so strong and fascinateing.i hope you understand this sorry for my english

[@giuseppemengoli]

We, living in the time of recordings and constant reproducing music from all times whenever we want, talk like you "Kept his style" means nothing. He lived in a time of constant change and disruption of traditions, where the man and his mind were in contrast with the man and the machines, the more the world of imaginary got lost the more he abandoned the tonality,the more the mankind created mass kill weapons, the more harmony collapsed. It was simply inevitable path history was taking... Style never existed. Only mediocre musician talk about their own style because they observe themselves and label themselves so that they can have an identity.

[@ssballs]

Hahaha, that's funny. And the nice thing about recordings...you can always go back i.s.o. to his later period. Gurre- lieder, Pelleas & Melissande, lots of 'populair' songs or a Handel variations. This work was a new ' diamond' for me. Fascinating traject in time, this man.

[@AndrewRudin]

He didn't. For the same reason Beethoven didn't continue writing like Haydn.

[@evanloday]

Personally, I appreciate this piece more knowing that he didn't continue to write this way--that it was a fleeting period of his life. Makes it more melancholy to me.

[@kiwi_tenor]

Anyone who likes this NEEDS to listen to Gurrelieder

[@alvarito45]

An atonal composer can become romantic, pure romantic of he wants. TY.

[@sangsabil217]

It sounds like one of ghibli movies. But idk which one hehe

[@SelectCircle]

Let's be hard to impress. It's fairly nice - not quite a yawner.

[@iamgrateful3697]

Oh man! I feel sorry for you😟

[@penelopewhite5074]

Pas Typique pour M. Shoenberg. Evidentment une tote ouvre. Pas comme les DeuzeTone misque il et plus fameuse pour

[@auscomvic9900]

It is pretty simple. Like cliches from Brahms etc. Maybe he got bored?

[@thecalifornian6014]

Xiu Xiu

[@enis.atallah]

The time where Schoenberg made beautiful music

[@eduardomartin323232]

Schoenberg obsessed with atonality, me just trying to make some money with my so elaborated pieces

[@rubyruby8825]

So this is how his music sounded before it all went wrong!

[@kpunkt.klaviermusik]

Yes, then everything went wrong. incl WW1 and WW2!

[@wanderlngdays]

No, this is how his music sounded before it went amazing

[@minema7953]

This was pretty good until he found out the Mozart's 40th symphony.

[@PianoRootsMusic]

This is the same man who invented a system for composing the ugliest music possible

[@Boulboulag]

Or he had the obligation to invent....

[@karlpoppins]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@composingwithjames]

Sometimes life is ugly, and the 20th century was a particularly ugly one. Personally, I'm glad for the turn he took. What I don't like is composers who look down upon those who compose tonal works. Schoenberg was, thankfully, not one of them!

[@albertnortononymous9020]

He was capable of writing the most beautiful music the world could ever hear. He deliberately chose not to because he ended up associating beauty with vulgar superficiality.

[@GUILLOM]

nah

[@garrysmodsketches]

I mean, it kind of is associated with vulgar superficiality. For example, most people consider Borodin's 2nd quartet very beautiful, but is it profound, deeply spiritual, complex, etc? No. And these characteristics were very important to Schoenberg.

[@UaM17]

The Schonberg i prefer, with " La nuit transfigurée ", 1899. But dodecaphonisme ? No, no and no

[@karllieck9064]

Too bad he later went 12 tone row and created awful, boring music.

[@augustinekleier5061]

Why did He Start to compose such bad-sounding atonal Music, when He was obviosly able to compose wonderful romantic Music? I dont Unterstand this Dude...

[@rohiogerv22]

I think he wanted to express things like distress, discomfort, foreignness in his atonal works. And as long as you're going into them knowing that that's what they're conveying, they do exactly that.

[@augustinekleier5061]

@@null8295 of course, you are right. IT's Not Like I would be an professional Pianist and Composer but.....okay

[@augustinekleier5061]

@@null8295 you First

[@PhilipDaniel]

@Jeg Hunckel "I tend to gravitate to music that mixes styles, and moves from consonance to sometimes extreme dissonance as the desired expression dictates." My work might interest you, as this has been one of my goals ...

[@arielorthmann4061]

He was always a late romantic composer. Serialism is just the logical consequence of late German romanticism.