ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Forest Hill Chamber Music Festival 2004</title> <style> a:link {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:active {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:visited {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:hover {color:000000;text-decoration: none} </style> </head> <body bgColor=ffffff topmargin=15 leftmargin=0 text=555555 link=000000 alink=000000 vlink=000000> <center> <a href="index.html"><img src="title01w.gif" border=0></a><BR> <BR><font size=3> { <a href="p1.html">6/11</a> &nbsp; <a href="p2.html">6/12</a> &nbsp; <a href="p3.html">6/13</a> &nbsp; <a href="p4.html">6/13</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="artists.html">artists</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="notes.html">program notes</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="photos.html">photos</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="contact.html">tickets</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="ack.html">acknowledgements</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="intro.html">about</a> } <BR><BR><BR> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR> <Td align=right valign=top> <table border=0 cellpadding=15 cellspacing=0><TR><TD align=right> <a href="n01-bach.html">Johann Sebastian Bach </a><BR> <a href="n02-beet.html">Ludwig van Beethoven </a><BR> <a href="n03-berg.html">Alban Maria Johannes Berg </a><BR> <a href="n14-druk.html">Jacob Raphael Druckman </a><BR> <a href="n04-dvor.html">Antonín DvoYák </a><BR> <a href="n05-hind.html">Paul Hindemith </a><BR> <a href="n06-mech.html">Kirke Mechem</a><BR> <a href="n07-mess.html">Olivier Messiaen</a><BR> <a href="n08-moza.html">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart </a><BR> <a href="n09-rohde.html">Kurt Rohde</a><BR> <a href="n10-ss.html">Charles Camille Saint-Saëns </a><BR> <a href="n11-scho.html">Arnold Schönberg </a><BR> <a href="n12-schub.html">Franz Peter Schubert </a><BR> <a href="n13-schum.html">Robert Schumann</a><BR> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD valign=top> <img src="black.gif" width=1 height=310><BR> </td> <TD valign=top width=500> <Table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15><TR><TD> <font size=5><center><b>Arnold Schönberg</b><br><font size=2><i> b. 1874 Vienna, Austria; d. 1951 Brentwood, California</i></center><font size=3><br><br> <b>Three Pieces, Op. 11, (1909)</b><br> <br> Debate continues into the current century as to whether Arnold Schönberg s more significant contribution to 20th Century music was the music he composed or the considerable influence he had, as a teacher and innovator, on so many composers and musicians of the past century. <br><br>Patriarch, along with pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern, of what has become known as the  Second Viennese School, Schönberg was essentially self-taught in music, and his musical ideas, theories, and techniques continually changed and evolved throughout his lifetime. <br><br>Schönberg s early compositions remained essentially  Viennese Romantic in style, derivative of Brahms, Wagner, and Hugo Wolf. He made his  break with the past and entered a new phase of composition with the  Three Pieces, which were the first atonal pieces to be published. <br><br>Copies of the manuscript were sent to pianist composer pedagogue Ferruccio Busoni in the hope of having them performed, but Busoni objected not only to their abandonment of traditional tonal harmony but also to their compact piano writing. Busoni wrote his own version of the second piece of the set, thus showing Schönberg how to write a more acceptable piece by lengthening the phrases through repetition and through the use of the pedals. <br><br>Schönberg objected to both aims and proclaimed that he had  invented a new style of piano writing in these compositions. Both versions of the second piece, Schönberg s and Busoni s, were published at the same time in 1910. <br><br>Although the harmony of these pieces avoids any tonal center, the densely referential thematic material binds them into a coherent and powerful whole. <br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr> </table> </body></html>