Demystifying Schoenberg's Conducting

Authors

  • Avior Byron Bar-Ilan University Author

Keywords:

Arnold Schoenberg, Conducting

Abstract

In 1975 Charles Rosen wrote: '"From time to time appear malicious stories of eminent conductors who have not realized that, in a piece of … Schoenberg, the clarinettist, for example, picked up an A instead of a B-flat clarinet and played his part a semitone off." This widespread anecdote is often told about Schoenberg as a conductor. There are also music critics who wrote negatively and quite decisively about Schoenberg's conducting.

Author Biography

  • Avior Byron, Bar-Ilan University

    Avior Byron lectures in Bar-Ilan University, Israel . He studied musicology and conducting at Tel-Aviv University , and is about to complete his studies at Royal Holloway, University of London where his doctoral thesis is on 'Schoenberg the Performer'; examining his performance aesthetics as manifested in his writings, in relation to his practice as a conductor. Byron published in Music Theory Online  and other important journals. He specialises in the fields of performance studies, theory and analysis, and twentieth-century music. Lately he became CEO of Byron Seminars LTD.

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Published

2025-03-09

Issue

Vol. 5 No. I (2006)

Section

Articles