Arnold Schönberg citations

Arnold Schönberg, ou Arnold Schoenberg est un compositeur, peintre et théoricien autrichien né le 13 septembre 1874 à Vienne, et mort le 13 juillet 1951 à Los Angeles. Deux siècles après Jean-Sébastien Bach et Jean-Philippe Rameau, qui avaient posé les fondements de la musique tonale, il chercha à émanciper la musique de la tonalité et inventa le dodécaphonisme, qui aura une influence marquante sur une part de la musique du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. septembre 1874 – 13. juillet 1951
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Arnold Schönberg: Citations en anglais

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

Arnold Schoenberg livre 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
Contexte: 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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