Frases de Arnold Schönberg
Arnold Schönberg
Fecha de nacimiento: 13. Septiembre 1874
Fecha de muerte: 13. Julio 1951
Arnold Schönberg fue un compositor, teórico musical y pintor austriaco de origen judío. Desde que emigró a los Estados Unidos, en 1933, adoptó la forma Arnold Schoenberg para escribir su nombre, y así es como suele aparecer en las publicaciones de idioma inglés.
Es reconocido como uno de los primeros compositores en adentrarse en la composición atonal, y especialmente por la creación de la técnica del dodecafonismo basada en series de doce notas, abriendo la puerta al posterior desarrollo del serialismo de la segunda mitad del s. XX. Además, fue el líder de la denominada Segunda Escuela de Viena.
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Frases Arnold Schönberg
„I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg, Arnold. 1975, in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. Edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black. p. 137
„I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Context: I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.
As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
„Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Context: Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. … Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value — a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 190
„Now we will throw these mediocre kitsch-mongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg, in a letter to Alma Mahler, 1914 (after the outbreak of the First World War); as quoted in "Impressions of War" http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/impressions-of-war by Philip Clark, The Gramaphone, 4 August 2014
Schoenberg's quote regarding: 'the bourgeois tendencies of musical reactionaries such as Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel'
„My music is not lovely.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Quoted by Theodor Adorno in his essay "Art and the Arts", 1966, reproduced in Clausen 2008, 387 http://books.google.com/books?id=JaVBgTmaSgYC&lpg=PA387).
„My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions“
— Arnold Schoenberg
Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349.
„... if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
„I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the repertoire.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
On his Violin Concerto (Op. 36), as quoted in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
„Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.“
— Arnold Schoenberg
"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of 9 May 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 209
