Arnold Schönberg

He is the great revolutionary of 20th century music. Arnold Schönberg’s career as a composer began as a Brahms fan in the late Romantic period. This composer spotlight explores all of Schönberg’s creative periods

Arnold Schönberg / Bild von Richard Gerstl
Arnold Schönberg / Bild von Richard Gerstl © Wikimedia Commons

Description

Without Arnold Schönberg, music history would definitely have taken a different course. At a time when the major-minor system that had been in place for centuries was increasingly being dismissed, he took the decisive step towards atonality – and thus finally opened the door to modernism. Now free from all harmonic constraints, around 1920 Schönberg finally developed the form that would have a lasting influence on the music of the 20th century with the »composition with twelve notes related only to each other«, also known as »twelve-tone music«. To mark Schönberg’s 150th birthday in September 2024, some of his most important works from all of his creative periods will be performed at the Elbphilharmonie – the Viennese composer began his career as a (late) Romantic composer.

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Alan Gilbert conducts Beethoven and Schönberg
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Video on demand from 3 May 2024 : Alan Gilbert conducts Beethoven and Schönberg

Under the baton of its chief conductor, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra presents Schönberg’s »A Survivor from Warsaw« and Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony. #Singing #LiveStream #MusicFestival2024 #ContemporaryMusic #Schönberg

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