Klarinet Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 2000/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] An interesting story about Schoenberg
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 03:03:56 -0400

<><> Dan=A0Leeson wrote:
suggestion that the musicians play wrong notes to see if Schoenberg
would hear them, and their discovery that he did not hear them."

I don't know musical history very well. Was Schoenberg deaf? Or
does this imply that his music was difficult even for the composer
himself to identify the 'melodies' from memory?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org