Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition: Celebrating the composer in his 150th anniversary year at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on Sunday 20th October 2024

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Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition

Celebrating the composer in his 150th anniversary year

Part of the London Sinfonietta 2024/25 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 20-10-2024 19:30 20-10-2024 21:30 36 Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition We open our 2024/25 season with a portrait of one of the most misunderstood pioneers of the early 20th-century avant-garde. Arnold Schoenberg's early works such as his Chamber Symphony, written in 1906, expanded the lush harmonies of late Romanticism to the extent that it scandalised audiences and incited them to riot at the strange physicality of the sounds they were hearing. Schoenberg and his pupils, among them Anton Webern, pushed this experiment in chromaticism to its extreme conclusion, eventually doing away with tonality in its entirety in the development of the twelve-tone system, also known as serialism or dodecaphony. The school of composition had a profound effect on the rest of the 20th Century, influencing composers who followed including Elisabeth Lutyens.  This most recent edition in London Sinfonietta's series of season-opening composer portraits celebrates Schoenberg in his 150th anniversary year. With pre-concert talks and video, this event will provide a thought-provoking and engaging introduction to a composer who changed the tradition he worked within. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Sunday 20th October 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Arnold Schoenberg – Serenade, Op.24
Anton Webern – Symphony, Op.21
Arnold Schoenberg – Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op.41
Arnold Schoenberg – 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op.19
Elisabeth Lutyens – Six Tempi for 10 Instruments
Arnold Schoenberg – Kammersymphonie, Op.9

Performers

Jonathan Berman – Conductor

London Sinfonietta

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Programme Note

We open our 2024/25 season with a portrait of one of the most misunderstood pioneers of the early 20th-century avant-garde. Arnold Schoenberg's early works such as his Chamber Symphony, written in 1906, expanded the lush harmonies of late Romanticism to the extent that it scandalised audiences and incited them to riot at the strange physicality of the sounds they were hearing.

Schoenberg and his pupils, among them Anton Webern, pushed this experiment in chromaticism to its extreme conclusion, eventually doing away with tonality in its entirety in the development of the twelve-tone system, also known as serialism or dodecaphony. The school of composition had a profound effect on the rest of the 20th Century, influencing composers who followed including Elisabeth Lutyens.

This most recent edition in London Sinfonietta's series of season-opening composer portraits celebrates Schoenberg in his 150th anniversary year. With pre-concert talks and video, this event will provide a thought-provoking and engaging introduction to a composer who changed the tradition he worked within.

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