Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an Austrian-American modernist composer who pioneered atonality and twelve-tone composition. His methods reshaped harmony and musical coherence in the twentieth century.
A central strand of his craft was motivic process as a means of coherence, later extended through serial organisation and the twelve-tone row.
His published solo piano works chart that path from early atonal experiment to fully serial writing, from the Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11, through the Suite, Op. 25, to the late Piano Pieces, Opp. 33a and 33b, presented complete on Arnold Schoenberg: Complete Works for Piano Solo (MCD 513). The same Op. 11 set also anchors programmes on My Heart (MCD 673) and Remixing Modernism (MD 3341).
Arnold Schoenberg is featured on the following titles
Remixing Modernism
A unique experiment by Stephen Emmerson: this two-CD set presents the same 1908–1909 piano repertoire with contrasting styles of mixing and sound production, from traditional to modern.
Arnold Schoenberg: Complete Works for Piano Solo
Australian pianist Danaë Killian presents Arnold Schoenberg’s complete published solo piano works, a repertoire she has studied and performed since her Basel recital of the cycle in 2001.
Compositions by Arnold Schoenberg also appear on
My Heart
Naarm/Melbourne pianist Danaë Killian presents an expressionist programme of solo piano, spoken word and tarot, centred on her own My Prussian Blue Heart and works by mostly Australian composers.