The final public talk in the “New Music: A Listener’s Guide II” project by the Studio for New Music and Ad Marginem publishing house Just over a century ago, Arnold Schoenberg, the “father” of the Western European musical avant-garde, wrote a series of short piano pieces using the twelve-tone technique he had invented. They have since become a symbol of “difficult” music. Yet in their construction, they are no more complex than the famous classics by Mozart or Verdi. The…
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