Schoenberg - Three Piano Pieces, No. 1 (with sheet music)

The first of the Op. 11 set, one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest experiments in free atonality.

Performed by Glenn Gould.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Schoenberg
• opus 11
• piano
• Glenn Gould
• three pieces
• Drei Klavierstuck

[libreg]

@IWantToUnderstandIt I don't know if it's "high art". I don't get that phrase. It's a different form of art, one you're more likely to understand if you're educated in music. For those without the privilege, you can always smoke some weed, but not too much, and lay down on your bed with the lights off. Then, let the music come to you, and try and find what feelings the music brings out of you. Ta dah, you now understand Schoenberg.

[rezmogm]

This piece is my absolute favorite Schoenberg piano piece. The whole opus is great but the first one just blows me away. I played it many years ago. Still the best.

[quelbop]

Stunning performance by Glenn Gould.

One of my favourite pieces by Schoenberg...before he veered towards academicism.

[fenderbender92]

@estring123 Your computer keyboard?

[AriaSinger1]

Set theorists understand just how brilliant this is. Schoenberg was writing music that would not be completely catalogued and structuralized by music theorists until 1973.

to prime form (014) and beyond!

[estring123]

listening to this shit makes me want to break something

[lolhatethat]

Rather listen to this than Air On a G String anyway

[dalecampbl6]

i'm so ambivalent...this music sounds pretty terrible...yet from the perspective of musical evolution, the only theories left to do was to throw out tonality and go atonal. I've been listening sporadically to Wozzeck for 10 years now and I still don't really enjoy Wozzeck, except for the party where he kills his wife and the part where he drowns himself and the very end of the opera.

[blhaymon]

This really is expressive music. It just isn't beautiful to listen to like other pieces would be such as Chopin or Mozart. It does express, just in a non pretty way. It would be a good piece to put to a movie, but not very pretty to listen to.

[notabear707]

Tonality was here, Atonality is a loser

[ClueBand]

@largolegato I agree. I find a lot of Schoenberg is quite romantic in taste. I guess I prefer Berg for being less derivative (my opinion, of course).

[leriruizdiaz1]

entender o no entender, no entendemos la vida y pretendemos entender el arte , disfruten chiquillos! no hace falta entender para disfrutar..