![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently the piece caused some friction with Schoenberg, Berg’s teacher, who criticized his pupil for writing such small-scale works and encouraged him to think bigger. We’ll begin with a twentieth-century work: Alban Berg’s Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, a series of brief miniatures. ![]() Schoenberg felt that Brahms’ ability to spin out large sections of music from small motives foreshadowed twentieth-century techniques. One of the pieces Schoenberg cited as evidence of Brahms’ pathbreaking sensibility is the featured work on today’s podcast: his first string quartet. In 1933, Arnold Schoenberg-the founding father of atonality, and in many ways the very definition of “progressive”- turned the classical music establishment on its head when he declared Johannes Brahms one of the greatest innovators of the Romantic era. Works for clarinet and piano, and string quartet, performed by Carol McGonnell, clarinet Steven Beck, piano and the Borromeo String Quartet.Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. ![]()
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