Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

- 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 enthus…

- Alban Berg

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

- Alban Berg

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 …

- Alban Berg

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 …

- Alban Berg

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

- Alban Berg

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the g…

- Alban Berg