| These highly individual pieces serve up a tasty treat of originality for the left hand | ||
| —Alec Boulton, Music Teacher (August 2005) |
Click the quotation text to discover what it refers to!
| These highly individual pieces serve up a tasty treat of originality for the left hand | ||
| —Alec Boulton, Music Teacher (August 2005) |
Click the quotation text to discover what it refers to!
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The foremost musical riddle of the last hundred years is here solved completely.
Why, at the turn of the twentieth century, did one man apparently arrest the musical thought of the world?
Why did he fool so many of the people for so much of the time?
Was he an outsider, the odd man out, ignored by passing musical history, extruding dictatorial ‘bulls’, heedlessly outraging others?
Was his mission just ‘all in the mind’—of a theorist living in fantasy?
Are musicians so easily hoaxed? And did not the ordinary sensitive listener know all along what was wrong?
The Riddle of Schoenberg takes the form of an open letter to an Arts Council Chairman. Readers may also be interested in Armstrong’s later essay, The Missing Music Mystery, which takes a similar form and is also available from Fand.
| Author | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Armstrong | The Riddle of Schoenberg An Open Letter ISBN 0-9535125-0-9 | ||
Catalogue code: FM088 • Published: 2007
Entry last updated: 21st July 2010