
Schoenberg: Breaking harmony
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week Gillian explores Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire.
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore present ѿý Radio 3's series exploring the pivotal 'modern' musical works of the 20th century, the groundbreaking composers who created them, and the radical cultural and artistic movements which gave rise to them. In this episode, Gillian explores Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire of 1912 and examines why early 20th Century Vienna was the perfect environment to push the limits of the harmonic language which had been forged there centuries earlier by Mozart and Haydn.
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- Sun 8 Jun 2025 21:00ѿý Radio 3