Description
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 (or Six Little Piano Pieces) is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, published in 1913.
Interestingly, this work was composed at the same time that Schönberg was working on his orchestration of his massive Gurre-Lieder. While he maintained a lifelong love of Romantic music, the extreme contrast between his Klavierstücke and his more romantic works comes from his modernist desire to find a new means of expression. For him, works like the Gurre-Lieder or Verklärte Nacht fulfilled the tradition he loved, but it was works like these Klavierstücke, or the Fünf Orchesterstücke that attempted to reach beyond it.
The six pieces do not carry individual names, but are often known by their tempo marking.
Contents:
- 1.Leicht, zart (Light, delicate)
- 2.Langsam (Slow)
- 3.Sehr langsame (Very slow)
- 4.Rasch, aber leicht (Brisk, but light)
- 5.Etwas rasch (Somewhat brisk)
- 6.Sehr langsam (Very slow)
