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1977. In a letter to Frau Mahler (in connection with Mahler Memorial Fund) Herr Strauss wrote about me as follows: "The only person who can help poor Schoenberg now is a psychiatrist ...". By contrast, recognizing the diminished importance of serialism in contemporary music history, critics from Pierre Boulez to James Tenney have argued that the overall historical importance of Schoenberg may have been overstated.

9 (1906)

Complete list of compositions with opus numbers

• 2 Gesänge(2 Songs) for baritone, Op. 1 (1898)
• 4 Lieder(4 Songs), Op. 2 (1899)
• 6 Lieder(6 Songs), Op.

  3 (1899-1903)

• Verklärte Nacht(Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (1899)
• Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (1902-1903)
• 8 Lieder(8 Songs) for Soprano, Op. 6 (1903-1905)
• String Quartet No. 1, D Minor, Op. 7 (1904-1905)
• 6 Lieder(6 Songs) with Orchestra, Op. 8 (1903-1905)
• Kammersymphonie(Chamber symphony) No.

  1, Op. 9 (1906)

• String Quartet No. 2, F-sharp Minor with Soprano, Op. 10 (1907-1908)
• 3 Stücke(3 Pieces) for Piano, Op. 11 (1909)
• 2 Balladen(2 Ballads), Op. 12 (1906)
• Friede auf Erden(Peace on Earth), Op. 13 (1907)
• 2 Lieder(2 Songs), Op. 14 (1907-1908)
• 15 Gedichte aus Das Buch der hängenden Gärten(15 Poems from The book of the Hanging Gardens) by Stefan George, Op.

  15 (1908-1909)

• Fünf Orchesterstücke(5 Pieces for Orchestra), Op. 16 (1909)
• Erwartung(Expectation) for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 17 (1909)
• Die Glückliche Hand(The lucky hand) for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 18 (1910-1913)
• Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke(6 Little piano pieces), Op.

  19 (1911)

• Herzgewächse(Foliage of the Heart) for Soprano, Op. 20 (1911)
• Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
• 4 Lieder(4 Songs) for Voice and Orchestra, Op. 22 (1913-1916)
• 5 Stücke(5 Pieces) for Piano, Op. 23 (1920-1923)
• Serenade, Op. 24 (1920-1923)
• Suite for Piano, Op.

  25 (1921-1923)

• Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (1924)
• 4 Stücke(4 Pieces), Op. 27 (1925)
• 3 Satiren(3 Satires), Op. 28 (1925-1926)
• Suite, Op. 29 (1925)
• String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927)
• Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1926-1928)
• Von heute auf morgen(From Today to Tomorrow) for Five Voices and Orchestra, Op.

  32 (1929)

• 2 Stücke (2 Pieces) for Piano, Op. 33a (1928) and Op. 33b (1931)
• Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene (Accompanying Music to a Film Scene), Op. 34 (1930)
• 6 Stücke (6 Pieces) for Male Chorus, Op. 35 (1930)
• Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1934-1936)
• String Quartet No. 4, op. Stravinsky’s revolutionary The Rite of Spring had created a riot at its premiere in 1913.

  Paperback reprint, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. ISBN 0571092764

• Schoenberg, Arnold. Los Angeles, NYC, Boston) have also been hosts for historically significant performances of Schoenberg's music, with advocates such as Babbitt in NYC and the Franco-American conductor-pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod; including the influence of Schoenberg's own pupils, who have taught at major American schools (e.g.

  The poet imagines himself to be Pierrot and expresses himself by the symbol of the moonbeam, which comes in many shapes and colors, but the songs are macabre rather than comic.

  In California, Schoenberg returned to keyed harmony but in a very distinctive way, not simply reusing classical harmony.

  Schoenberg's serial technique of composition with 12 notes was among the most central and polemical conversations among American and European musicians of the mid-20th century.

  Arnold Schoenberg, 1903?: piano 4 hands)

• Schubert: Ständchen (Serenade), D. 889 (arr. But in 1950, on his seventy-sixth birthday, an astrologer wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13 (Nuria Schoenberg-Nono, quoted in Lebrecht 1985, 295). 1921: clarinet, mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, violoncello)
• Johann Strauss II: Kaiser-Walzer [Emperor Waltz], Op.

  437 (arr. He started composing when he was ten years old, beginning with small pieces for the instruments familiar to him, imitating music he had played with his teacher or cousin. Western music had attained complex harmonies by the end of Romanticism, and Schoenberg, convinced that it could not develop any farther, early on transitioned toward the atonal motivic development.

  Schoenberg's Six Songs, Op. 3 (1899–1903), for example, exhibit a conservative clarity of tonality organization typical of Brahms and Mahler, reflecting an interest in balanced phrases and an undisturbed hierarchy of key relationships. "The Lyceum of Schonberg", Modern Music 9, no. An even more grotesque exploration of the bizarre and macabre comes in Pierrot Lunaire (1912), a cycle in which the reciter, accompanied by a small chamber ensemble of woodwind, strings and piano, employs a vocal technique known as Sprechgesang which blurs the borderlines between speech and song.

  (Oh, the senses are too numerous!) (Bärenreiter I) (1905) (4 voices)

• Wenn der schwer Gedrückte klagt (When the sore oppressed complains) (Bärenreiter II) (1905) (4 voices)
• Wer mit der Welt laufen will (He who wants to run with the world) (for David Bach) (Bärenreiter XXI) (1926; 1934) (3 voices)
• Canon (Bärenreiter IV) (1926) (4 voices)
• Von meinen Steinen (From my stones) (for Erwin Stein) (Bärenreiter V) (1926) (4 voices)
• Arnold Schönberg beglückwünschst herzlichst Concert Gebouw (Arnold Schoenberg congratulates the Concert Gebouw affectionately) (Bärenreiter VI) (1928) (5 voices)
• Mirror canon with two free middle voices, A major (Bärenreiter VIII) (1931) (4 voices)
• Jedem geht es so (No man can escape) (for Carl Engel) (Bärenreiter XIII) (1933; text 1943) (3 voices)
• Mir auch ist es so ergangen (I, too, was not better off) (for Carl Engel) (Bärenreiter XIV) (1933; text 1943) (3 voices)
• Perpetual canon, A minor (Bärenreiter XV) (1933) (4 voices)
• Mirror canon, A minor (Bärenreiter XVI) (1933) (4 voices)
• Es ist zu dumm (It is too dumb) (for Rudolph Ganz) (Bärenreiter XXII) (1934) (4 voices)
• Man mag über Schönberg denken, wie man will (One might think about Schoenberg any way one wants to) (for Charlotte Dieterle) (Bärenreiter XXIII) (1935) (4 voices)
• Double Canon (Bärenreiter XXV) (1938) (4 voices)
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