Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2000/09

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] An interesting story about Schoenberg
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:17:41 -0400

Schoenberg was not deaf. And the point of the story is much more severe
than your suggested solution. In the final analysis, it suggests that
it didn't matter what notes were played in that particular composition
because even the composer could not tell the difference.

I do not say that I agree with that terrible accusion, only that it is
the ultimate meaning of the vignette I quoted.

William Wright wrote:
>
> <><> Dan Leeson 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?
>
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