Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand? Alban Berg More Quotes by Alban Berg More Quotes From Alban Berg Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. Alban Berg perception reflection feelings I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. Alban Berg mad spiritual joy The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic. Alban Berg logic magic results I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality. Alban Berg law believe thinking I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence. Alban Berg independence music proud Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge. Alban Berg composer music-is feelings
