Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 Arnold Schoenberg Born: September 13, 1874, Vienna, Austria Died: July 13, 1951, Los Angeles, California Composed: 1906 Duration: 20 minutes When Schoenberg completed the Kammersymphonie (Chamber Symphony) No. 1 in 1906, he told his friends: “Now I have established my style. Now I know how I have to compose.” He quickly realized this was not true: as he put it, he was “not destined” to continue in this post-Romantic manner. Looking back, he saw th

The University of Maryland Wind Orchestra performed at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference in San Jose, California, on July 12, 2015. Concert Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to "The Magic Flute" (1791), arr. Bastiaan Blomhert Michael Forbes: Grumpy Troll Craig Potter, tuba Arvo Pärt: Fratres (1977), arr. Beat Brinner Edgard Varèse: Density 21.5 Caroline Rohm, flute Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 (1906) Paul Lansky: Comix

Schoenberg's "Theme and Variations, Op. 43a", a cornerstone of the wind band repertoire, was featured today on Composers Datebook from American Public Media. Schoenberg intended the piece to be played by a high school ensemble or amateur group, but as anyone who has performed the piece can tell you, it is much too difficult for high school students. The piece is also unusual, in that Schoenberg had firmly entrenched himself in atonality at the time of composition. You can fin

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it were known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of program music—should there be any left—would go mad with joy. —“Open Letter” from Alban Berg to Arnold Schoenberg, February 9, 1925 The Vienna of Schoenberg and his students was also the Vienna of Sigmund Freud and the birthplace of psychoanalysis. What would Freud have made of the tendency o