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This show, first broadcast in February of 2016, is devoted to the music of arguably the greatest of Europe’s early modernists, Arnold Schoenberg. Representing the Viennese genius are masterpieces from the first four decades of his compositional career, with the show tracing his development from post-romanticism to atonal expressionism and ultimately the twelve-tone method of composition, which Schoenberg developed in the 1920s. Works played are:

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899; string-orchestra arrangement, 1917; rev. 1944)

Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (1909, rev. 1949)

Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)

“Nacht” from Pierrot lunaire, conducted by Arnold Schoenberg

Orchestral Variations, Op. 31 (1928)

Link to:

Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018

For more on Arnold Schoenberg, see:

Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition

Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music

Music: SFCR Radio Show #25, Schoenberg in America

Music: SFCR Radio Show #27, 20th-Century Music on the March

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And be sure to read Sabine Feisst’s book Schoenberg’s New World