Schoenberg explained in 10 Minutes

Comments · 416

• MA

  @mariam_much · 3 years ago

  In love with fact that this video is 13 minutes long (Schoenberg was terrified of that number his whole life)<br>and also, 13 was composer&apos;s birth and death date. <br><br>Still hunting him till this day

  78

• NE

  @nevbarnes1034 · 2 years ago

  He&apos;s known for his atonal work, yet <i>Verklärte Nacht</i> is quite simply the most sublimely beauteous piece you will ever hear.

  97

• TD

  @TdF_101 · 7 years ago (edited)

  A music teacher once told me: &quot;You want to try to understand Schoenberg more? Try listening to his works in chronological order and you&apos;ll hear many interesting things&quot;. Needless to say I did do this over time and some of the same things you mention in this video became very clear to me.

  416

• XJ

  @xjesusxchristx · 3 years ago

  I have always looked at his stance as basically being &quot;know the rules, before you break them&quot;; which I think is a sound philosophy here.

  4

• BA

  @bassoonistfromhell · 7 years ago

  I first heard Schoenberg when I was in my early teens and it completely rocked my world.

  61

• DR

  @DreamlessSleepwalker · 7 years ago

  Can you do an Alban Berg video?

  33

• AC

  @Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole · 2 years ago

  Anyone who can explain Schoenberg in 10 minutes....is a <i>godsend!</i>

  6

• CO

  @cornicello · 7 years ago

  Leon Kirchner had studied with Schoenberg, and had some wonderful comments and stories. &nbsp;The students would try to confound him by finding an obscure Romantic-era work, playing an excerpt for him (right before class), and asking him to ID the composer/music. &nbsp;According to Kirchner, Schoenberg always, without fail, correctly identified the work/composer.

  127

• CE

  @CentrifugalSatzClock · 2 years ago

  Survivor from Warsaw. &nbsp;He got up for that challenge.

  5

• MU

  @musicfroth · 10 days ago

  I&apos;m glad you pointed out the Expressionist aspect of the work. In your explanations of Why this music is difficult, I think the WEIRDNESS, CREEPINESS, of, i.e., Pierrot Lunaire, is the first thing that strikes the listener; concerns about harmony, cadence,etc., are the scaffolding upon which that weirdness is built. You know his self-portraits: this was not a man comfortable in his own skin, and that was apparent in all of his music. The Romantic project lived on, but in a terribly disturbing way!

• QW

  @qwertyu8832 · 6 years ago

  I love the part where you said that if you want to learn about tonality, read about it from the perspective of an atonal composer!

  10

• FE

  @ferguscullen8451 · 6 years ago

  13 minutes into a 10-minute explainer on Schoenberg: &quot;We haven&apos;t really talked a lot about serialism&quot;...! Great stuff.

  8