Schoenberg: "String Quartet No. 5" (Fragments)

[kzoorock]

i love how this is presented with the manuscript... it feels like you're there when he composed it!

[LevMysh68]

What a loss for mankind that this was not completed! One could say that in his final years, Schoenberg couldn't keep up with new music -- particularly the innovations of Webern -- but I think, innovative or not, this music sounds fresh and young.

[C0NTR4B455]

Interesting but not a patch on op.45..Thanks.

[alexie28]

although it takes a while to get used to (it is an acquired taste), this musical has a lot of beauty...

[Twardyziom]

it is dodekafonia? :D

[MusicaRicercata]

What a masterful quartet this would have been.

[BachRocks314]

This is so interesting. Sounds like he was drawing upon the textures of Webern at times.

[johnnynoirman]

I enjoy it immensely.

[johnstrieder]

Thank you very much!

[japanesesweet]

very tantalizing and i especially like the opening of the first movement which is red hot,unlike that awfully wooden first movement of no.3.

I agree with the post which suggests an exciting change of direction.

[frosty956]

I liked m 3 and 4 the best. Very nice.

[EMPERORMIKI]

How lyrical ... lovely.

[madderbass]

Wow, where did you happen to come across this?

[Enantiodromialist]

Very intriguing. I've never been drawn to late Schoenberg, the Third Quartet struck me a quasi-neo-classical dead end, but this sounds like a new direction. I'm inclined to think that failing to extend tonality microtonally was a fundamental error in responding to the crisis of tonality; Berg and Webern flirted with it slightly. Realistically, it was beyond the performance standards of the time, but Partch, Carrillo, Johnston, et al. will prove to be the influential figures of the next century.

[questions613]

@Enantiodromialist check out trio op 45 see if that "draws" you

[Enantiodromialist]

@questions613 Thank you for the suggestion. I just got Malcolm MacDonald’s new revised “ Schoenberg ” from the library – I enjoy his scholarship and viewpoint ( I have all 3 vols. of his Havergal Brian ) and look for ward to reading it ( he covers every work in depth ).

It’s not late period, but I’ve been drawn to Der Jakobsleiter and need to study it more.

[tempodimarcia]

This is amazing. I didn't know that there were sketches for a 5th, thanks for the upload.

[flammesombres]

Wow...

[onclevanja]

THAT WAS FUN!

Reminded me of the string trio a little. The late Schönberg revisiting expressionism. Great post!