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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Composer of the Week: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Episode 2: Breaking Free: The Father

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

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Episode 2: Breaking Free: The Father

Breaking Free: The Father

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Breaking Free: The Father

Donald Macleod focuses on Schoenberg's family life, including his troubled first marriage.

Donald Macleod focuses on Schoenberg's family life, including his troubled first marriage. With Four Songs for Voice and Piano, Op 2; Die Gluckliche Hand; Piano Concerto.

Donald Macleod explores Schoenberg's life from five different viewpoints. Part of Radio 3's season: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music. Today the composer's family life, including his troubled first marriage.

Schoenberg's family life did not always run smoothly. His first wife ran off with the painter Schoenberg had engaged to teach them both, with tragic consequences. His relationship with his eldest son was never warm, Schoenberg's parenting style being old-fashioned to say the least. His second marriage however was a happy one, and the basis of a second family in America. Donald looks at Schoenberg's family life and relationships. 

Four Songs, Op 2
Konrad Jarnot, Baritone
Urs Liska, Piano

Die Glückliche Hand, Op 18
Siegmund Nimsgern, Bass 
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, Conductor

Wind Quintet, Op 26: Rondo
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, Conductor

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op 42
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, Conductor


Part of Radio 3's "Breaking Free - the minds that changed music", exploring the music of the Second Viennese School.

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Donald Macleod explores Schoenberg's life from five different viewpoints

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