A little late, I know, but it's still Christmastide, and I heard this beautiful piece of festive music by Schoenberg the other day and it's stayed with me. Enjoy...
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- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
It's an arrangement of a 16th-century motet (A Spotless Rose) by Praetorius.
ReplyDeleteYes Nige, with this wonderful mid-period miniature he reminded us of his debt to Johannes Brahms, a composer with more than 20 years still to live when Schoenberg was born. Also, thankfully, we are reminded of the pull of romanticism that never really left him and, as he composed this as a resolute Lutheran, the torture he must have endured alongside the rise of Hitler, an event he foretold, only re-committing to Judaism in his late fifties.
ReplyDeleteThanks MM - the more I learn about Schoenberg the more fascinating (and tragic) he becomes...
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