— Arnold Schönberg, buch Harmonielehre
Arnold Schönberg: Harmonielehre, Universal Edition Wien 1922, S. V https://books.google.de/books?id=1dQ5AAAAIAAJ&q=blamieren ( Vorwort https://books.google.de/books?id=1dQ5AAAAIAAJ&q=vollmensch)
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Arnold Schönberg
Geburtstag: 13. September 1874
Todesdatum: 13. Juli 1951
Arnold Schönberg war ein österreichischer Komponist, Musiktheoretiker, Kompositionslehrer, Maler, Dichter und Erfinder. Er stammte aus einer jüdischen Familie, emigrierte 1933 in die USA und nahm 1941 die Staatsbürgerschaft der Vereinigten Staaten an. Nach seiner Emigration schrieb er sich Arnold Schoenberg.
Schönberg gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Komponisten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts und als zentrale Figur der sogenannten „Zweiten Wiener Schule“, speziell auch genannt Wiener atonale Schule. Ihr Bestreben, „die Tonalität in ihrer spätromantischen Erscheinungsform konsequent zu Ende“ zu denken, mündete nach Aufgabe der Dur-Moll-Tonalität zwischen 1906 und 1909, beziehungsweise zwischen 1904 und 1911 in die Zwölftontechnik. Schönberg entwickelte um 1920 parallel zum weniger bekannten Josef Matthias Hauer die „theoretische Formulierung“ dieser neuen Kompositionstechnik, die später zur seriellen Musik weiterentwickelt und von zahlreichen Komponisten der Neuen Musik aufgegriffen wurde.
Werk
Zitate Arnold Schönberg
Brief an Ferruccio Busoni, Poststempel 13. (oder 18.?) August 1909. busoni-nachlass.org https://busoni-nachlass.org/edition/letters/E010001/D0100012#12
„…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.“
— Arnold Schoenberg, buch Style and Idea
from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s
„I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!“
Schoenberg, Arnold. 1975, in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. Edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black. p. 137
after 1930
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 190
before 1930
„I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details.“
As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
after 1930
Kontext: 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.
Arnold Schoenberg, (1946); as quoted in A Schoenberg reader - Documents of a life, edited by Joseph Auner, Yale University Press 2003, page 316-17
1940s
As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 143
1930s
"About Music Criticism" (1909), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 196
1900s
Note of 1944; as quoted in the Charles Ives profile at Decca Classics http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/composers/ives.html
1940s
„My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions“
Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349.
after 1930
„My music is not modern, it is merely badly played“
Genette, Gérard. 1997. Immanence and Transcendence, translated by G. M. Goshgarian. p. 102
Undated
In a letter to Wassily Kandinsky, 18 Dec. 1911; as quoted in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa Group company), 2003, p. 15-16 note 49
1910s
„I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the repertoire.“
On his Violin Concerto (Op. 36), as quoted in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
Undated
„Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.“
"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of 9 May 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 209
1920s
„There are no more geniuses, only critics.“
"Those Who Complain about the Decline" (1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 203
1920s
"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 210
1920s
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 189
1900s
„I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.“
As quoted in "The Red Gaze"' in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf, p. 92
Undated
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 Gramophone, 4 August 2014
Schoenberg's quote regarding: 'the bourgeois tendencies of musical reactionaries such as Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel'
1910s
