Arnold Schoenberg Quote

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


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...