Arnold Schoenberg

Maurice Ravel

music

occupation / innovator as

conductor

pianist

intellectual movement

Impressionist music

choreographer

nationality

French

musician

religion

atheism

scientific organization

Royal Swedish Academy of Music

composer

World War I

Les Apaches

Société musicale indépendante

is a composer whose influence is to be identified not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art.

In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

is one who did his work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

 must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

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