Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto op. 42 (Excerpt)

I wasn't going to post on this, but you claim Berg, Webern, Messiaen, Boulez, Cage, Varese and Charles Ives are total unknowns? Despite your post being made two months ago I just wanted to remind you of your patently ridiculous comment. After following this little flame war of yours, this was the point at which your comments essentially became meaningless. Your opinion seems to reek of an abject inferiority complex when it comes to this topic. Who do you know that set you off?

well, let's examine this, Columbo. Who was it who set me off? Oh, wait. Now I remember. I heard something from Schoenberg on youtube with my own ears. It was patent SHIT!

And then I saw all these posts about how WONDERFUL he is, blah blah blah. But here's further proof. You don't have ANY CDs of the people you mentioned. None! And you never listen to them, outside of a homework assignment. You're a complete fraud. You and all the rest of those posers.
Now go change your Depends.

So your entire judgment on the concept of atonal composition is based on a five minute segment you happened upon on youtube, youve never bothered to listen to the entire concerto? One of my favourite pieces of music is Messiaens Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus btw. I doubt youve ever got past one minute of a piece of music you thought was below you and decided to write it off as rubbish.

okay, you're new here so I'm going to cut you some slack. I'm a TOTAL BULLSHIT ARTIST! I just love pushing peoples buttons to see them go off. If I had been in the mood, I would have played you like a tune for weeks...maybe even months...before you caught on. But I'm in the middle of a heist and don't really have time for this right now.

Just a cunt then, eh? Fair enough.

you just COULDN'T resist, could you??

If you like this guy, you shouldn't CARE what an idiot like me says! There's TOO MANY OF US IDIOTS out here for you to waste your life on.

Brilliant. Darwin will help understand schonberg.

Art may be subjective, but I truly believe that underlyingly, consonance isn't.


Whether consonance equates to artistic merit, I can't say and I don't think anyone can, it's just a matter of opinion.

and (acquired) taste