I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning."


"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923) Style and Idea (1985), p. 210

Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming...

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming...

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming...

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming...