In the years he was experimenting with atonality, and later would go on codifying the twelve-tone method and ground the foundation of serialism, Schönberg still gave us this. Really like it.
I did not understand this very much at all until I heard the triplet rhythm at the end fall apart and revert to duplets like in the beginning of "Clair de lune" ... then I was suddenly in tears for some reason. So gorgeous!!
Lovely piece, and of course it wouldn't be Schoenberg without it being saturated with intrinsic polyphonic writing - a quod-libet of some sort? - and a Pierrot Lunaire-harmonium. Nice performance as well, thank you for sharing.
Why? I think that he composed the music that he needed to compose without wanting to please the audience. And I think that that sincerity also applies in pieces like this one.
I'm so annoyed by comments like yours. People like you just want composers to compose in one style over and over again because your fragile ears are so afraid of hearing anything more abstract and complex. Schoenberg wrote music that he wanted to despite having countless people like you constantly whining about his atonal music. He bravely followed his own aesthetics and that is the sign of a true artist, bravely following your own path, listening to your own voice despite what others will say about you.
@@Scriabin_fan please do not lecture me, you have no idea who I am or what my tastes are. all i meant by my comment was that I wish Schoenberg wrote more music out of desire for creation rather than to flex his intellectual ability. 12 tone was an academic exercise, I'd rather hear genuine music.
I'm no fan of serialism, though I can enjoy some of what I hear, e.g., in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. What surprises me is how boring this is to my ears--whether compared to Bach or to Bartok, two of my favorites, the latter of whom I believe acccomplished what S. may have hoped to--the liberation of music from diatonic tonality--but without in large measure sacrificing audible coherence.
Lol this sounds more like a prank! Hat was Schelmisches. "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" hat einfach 0% Qualität eines Fugue subject. Als c.f. eines Choralvorspiels höchstens. Klar man kann damit auch Beethovens 5. Komponieren, muss man aber nicht.
It's strange how you can continue to listen his personality in another style of music. I can recognise his "collage" style of orchestrating even here.
In the years he was experimenting with atonality, and later would go on codifying the twelve-tone method and ground the foundation of serialism, Schönberg still gave us this. Really like it.
I like this. Something that people at all levels of musical sophistication can enjoy at Xmas.
This is a great discovery. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for the score.
Stunningly beautiful, brilliant work.
I did not understand this very much at all until I heard the triplet rhythm at the end fall apart and revert to duplets like in the beginning of "Clair de lune" ... then I was suddenly in tears for some reason. So gorgeous!!
Beautiful
Lovely piece, and of course it wouldn't be Schoenberg without it being saturated with intrinsic polyphonic writing - a quod-libet of some sort? - and a Pierrot Lunaire-harmonium. Nice performance as well, thank you for sharing.
Wow ❤🎄🎄🎄
Lovely Christmas present on your channel. Brahms and Barber also gave this melody a contrapuntal workout.
The Brahms is almost unrecognizable with all the chromatic umspiel ing!🎉😂❤
💖💖💖💖💖
I orchestrated this in the Klangfarb style
Heeloo.
if only schoenberg wrote more music like this :(
If only schönberg ceased to exist
Nah I'm glad he didn't
Why? I think that he composed the music that he needed to compose without wanting to please the audience. And I think that that sincerity also applies in pieces like this one.
I'm so annoyed by comments like yours. People like you just want composers to compose in one style over and over again because your fragile ears are so afraid of hearing anything more abstract and complex. Schoenberg wrote music that he wanted to despite having countless people like you constantly whining about his atonal music. He bravely followed his own aesthetics and that is the sign of a true artist, bravely following your own path, listening to your own voice despite what others will say about you.
@@Scriabin_fan please do not lecture me, you have no idea who I am or what my tastes are. all i meant by my comment was that I wish Schoenberg wrote more music out of desire for creation rather than to flex his intellectual ability. 12 tone was an academic exercise, I'd rather hear genuine music.
Euclid1618 wrote that this sucks. Perhaps this plasticboytells.
I love to getting to know this rare composition, but I find this plain ugly.
I'm no fan of serialism, though I can enjoy some of what I hear, e.g., in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. What surprises me is how boring this is to my ears--whether compared to Bach or to Bartok, two of my favorites, the latter of whom I believe acccomplished what S. may have hoped to--the liberation of music from diatonic tonality--but without in large measure sacrificing audible coherence.
Have you listened to other of his early works?
Lol this sounds more like a prank! Hat was Schelmisches. "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" hat einfach 0% Qualität eines Fugue subject. Als c.f. eines Choralvorspiels höchstens. Klar man kann damit auch Beethovens 5. Komponieren, muss man aber nicht.
This sucks
Don't criticize what you don't understand.
@michaelcarroll7621 hey cool it with the antisemitic remarks
@@michaelcarroll7621 Please explain it then
@@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru It is a simple setting of a familiar Christmas tune.
@@michaelcarroll7621 It still sucks, so what don't we understand?