Re: [dev] [OT] Music?

Kris Maglione dixit (2010-09-08, 19:05):

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:21:52PM -0700, Paolo wrote:
> > Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Debussy, Satie,
>
> Schönberg. 12 Tone... Ah, would that he were never born.

Please don't create a suggestion that Schönberg only (or even mostly)
created 12-tone music. He personality and artistic development is a
truly fascinating process in which 12-tone composition was a chapter
that he basically started getting out of as soon as he got into.

There were other composers far more engaged in the a 12-tone technique
like Webern (whose two Kantatas are of utmost beauty) and Křenek,
whose collection of works I recently recorded on CD [1], and that I'm
perhaps a little less fond of, but his (reportedly) strictly 12-tone
Piano Sonata recorded by Gould is also wonderful.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Krenek-Symphonic-Elegy/dp/B002JP9HVM

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