Arnold Schoenberg - the 1930's
from Arnold Schoenberg Letters, page 201:
On the other hand the concerts were a great pleasure to me, and you will understand how much I appreciate what you have done through these concerts and how you have done it. May I thank you again cordially. / The Kolischs played marvellously. Everything seems so simple, so self-evident in their performance, that one would think it is easy. Their virtuosity, their sonority, their understanding, their style, are admirable. I confess they are the best string quartet I [have] ever heard. I am so enthusiastic … more >>
Arnold Schoenberg, and Erwin Stein (ed.), Arnold Schoenberg Letters (1964), p. 201. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1448984846822 accessed: 11 October, 2024
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Schoenberg's early string quartets
written by Arnold Schoenberg |
performed by Kolisch Quartet |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1930's |
Medium | live |
Notes
Letter from Arnold Schoenberg to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Los Angeles, 5 February 1937.