Frasi di Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Franz Walther Schönberg è stato un compositore austriaco naturalizzato statunitense. È stato uno tra i primi, nel XX secolo, a scrivere musica completamente al di fuori dalle regole del sistema tonale, ed è stato uno degli applicatori del metodo dodecafonico, basato su una sequenza comprendente tutte le dodici note della scala musicale cromatica temperata.

✵ 13. Settembre 1874 – 13. Luglio 1951
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Arnold Schönberg frasi celebri

“Non sono tedesco né europeo, forse neppure un essere umano, ma un ebreo.”

Origine: A Vasilij Kandinskij; citato in Enzo Biagi, 1935 e dintorni, Mondadori, Milano, 1982, p. 182.

“[Alla domanda: «È Lei il famoso compositore Schönberg?»] Qualcuno doveva pur esserlo. È toccato a me.”

Origine: Citato in Corriere della Sera, 6 marzo 2006.

“Il genio impara solo da sé stesso, il talento soprattutto dagli altri.”

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 66, p. 166.

Arnold Schönberg Frasi e Citazioni

“Detesto che mi si definisca rivoluzionario… sin dai miei esordi sono stato sensibilissimo alla forma e ho avversato con tutta l'anima le esagerazioni.”

Origine: Citato in Walter Laqueur, La Repubblica di Weimar, traduzione di Lydia Magliano, Rizzoli, Milano, 1977, cap. IV, p. 199.

“Chiamare atonale qualsiasi relazione fra toni è come definire aspettrale o acomplementare una relazione fra colori. Questa antitesi non esiste.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della musica classica, traduzione di Anna Fontebuoni, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 244. ISBN 9788858022894

Arnold Schönberg: Frasi in inglese

“…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”

Arnold Schoenberg libro Style and Idea

from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s

“I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”

Schoenberg, Arnold. 1975, in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. Edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black. p. 137
after 1930

“I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details.”

As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg‎ (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
after 1930
Contesto: I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.

“I believe that he (Strauss) will remain one of the characteristic and outstanding figures in musical history. Works like Salome, Elektra and Intermezzo, and others will not perish.”

Arnold Schoenberg, (1946); as quoted in A Schoenberg reader - Documents of a life, edited by Joseph Auner, Yale University Press 2003, page 316-17
1940s

“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg‎ (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 143
1930s

“My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions”

Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349.
after 1930

“My music is not modern, it is merely badly played”

Genette, Gérard. 1997. Immanence and Transcendence, translated by G. M. Goshgarian. p. 102
Undated

“I have just read your book [On the Spiritual in Art] from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..”

In a letter to Wassily Kandinsky, 18 Dec. 1911; as quoted in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa Group company), 2003, p. 15-16 note 49
1910s

“I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the repertoire.”

On his Violin Concerto (Op. 36), as quoted in Schoenberg‎ (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
Undated

“Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.”

"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of 9 May 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 209
1920s

“There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

"Those Who Complain about the Decline" (1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 203
1920s

“I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.”

As quoted in "The Red Gaze"' in Expressionism (2004) by Norbert Wolf, p. 92
Undated

“Now we will throw these mediocre kitsch-mongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.”

Arnold Schoenberg, in a letter to Alma Mahler, 1914 (after the outbreak of the First World War); as quoted in "Impressions of War" http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/impressions-of-war by Philip Clark, The Gramophone, 4 August 2014
Schoenberg's quote regarding: 'the bourgeois tendencies of musical reactionaries such as Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel'
1910s

“If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip… Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…”

quote from Glosses on the Theories of Others (1929); also in Style and Idea (1985), p. 313-314
1920s

“My music is not lovely.”

Quoted by Theodor Adorno in his essay "Art and the Arts", 1966, reproduced in Clausen 2008, 387 http://books.google.com/books?id=JaVBgTmaSgYC&lpg=PA387).
Undated

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