Piccoli ma grandi

Schönberg – 6 Kleine Klavierstücke op. 19 (1911)

In this 6 short pieces (from 26 to 80 second), Schoenberg accepts the Webern ideas about minimal form, reducing the compositional outline to a simple fragment.
The most interesting piece is the sixth. In this piece, the research is pushed to a high level of abstraction, similar to the painting works by Kandinsky or Klee.
In this nine bars we can find a new rhythmic feeling and a new sound consciousness moving from harmony and melody to the sound itself. A world where the meaning of each sound is the sound itself.
Listen to op. 19/6

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