Piano: 20th Century
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553339
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th November 2015
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata, op.1Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Klavierstuck, op.33a
Klavierstuck, op.33b
Klavierstucke (3), op.11
Enchiridion Appendix: Intermezzo
Enchiridion I, small pieces for piano (8)
Enchiridion II, small pieces for piano (5)
Hommage a Johann Strauss
L'apres midi d'un Puck
Artists
Cathy Krier (piano)Works
Piano Sonata, op.1Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Klavierstuck, op.33a
Klavierstuck, op.33b
Klavierstucke (3), op.11
Enchiridion Appendix: Intermezzo
Enchiridion I, small pieces for piano (8)
Enchiridion II, small pieces for piano (5)
Hommage a Johann Strauss
L'apres midi d'un Puck
Artists
Cathy Krier (piano)About
“For this disc I have chosen to retrace the path originally taken by Arnold Schoenberg. Born in Vienna in 1874, Schoenberg had an atypical career. Upon his father’s death, he had to leave school as the eldest sibling at the age of sixteen to take up a profession. As an autodidact he learned the essentials of composition by sight-reading great repertoire and by playing chamber music on the cello and the violin. Married to the sister of Alexander Zemlinsky, Schoenberg took some counterpoint lessons from that composer and soon started teaching harmony and counterpoint himself, from 1903 on.
“His teaching activity remained central throughout his life, both in Europe and after having immigrated to the US. Profoundly aware of the continual evolution of Art as a historical necessity, Schoenberg introduced an important change into composition at the beginning of the 20th century. He took it over the brink into the unknown by dissolving the classical functions of harmony, then by eliminating all familiar points of melodic and thematic reference. Schoenberg’s Op. 11 is the first truly atonal work for piano ever written....”
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