Arnold Schoenberg seems to have a reputation as having been more intellectually interested in tonal experimentation than actually writing beautiful music…and by that I may well mean, “That’s how I thought of Arnold Schoenberg for many years.” Well, that’s unfair, and here’s why. This is as lovely a piece of chamber music as I have ever heard. It’s simply titled Weihnachtsmusik (“Christmas Music”), and it’s scored for two violins, cello, harmonium, and piano.
(And if you’re wondering what a harmonium is, it’s basically a keyboarded squeezebox instrument that uses a bellows to push air over a set of reeds.)
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