Kris Maglione dixit (2010-09-08, 19:05): > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:21:52PM -0700, Paolo wrote: > > Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Debussy, Satie, > > Schönberg. 12 Tone... Ah, would that he were never born.
Please don't create a suggestion that Schönberg only (or even mostly) created 12-tone music. He personality and artistic development is a truly fascinating process in which 12-tone composition was a chapter that he basically started getting out of as soon as he got into. There were other composers far more engaged in the a 12-tone technique like Webern (whose two Kantatas are of utmost beauty) and Křenek, whose collection of works I recently recorded on CD [1], and that I'm perhaps a little less fond of, but his (reportedly) strictly 12-tone Piano Sonata recorded by Gould is also wonderful. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Krenek-Symphonic-Elegy/dp/B002JP9HVM -- [a]
