#ClassicsaDay #Classical1925 Week 1
By Ralph Graves
For January 2025 the Classics a Day team challenges you to look back a century. The “modern” era of music was well underway in 1925. Some of the works composed still shock audiences today.
The challenge is to post classical works that were created, premiered, or recorded for the first time in 1925. Here are my posts for the first (partial) week of #Classical1925.
01/01/25 Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Septet, Op. 29
Schoenberg’s 1925 Suite is a complex 12-tone work. The basic theme row is reversed to create new permutations of the 3-4 note motifs of the piece.
01/02/25 Anton Webern: Klavierstück WoO 18
The Klavierstück is one of Webern’s unpublished compositions. It was composed in 1925 and was to be played “in the tempo of a minuet.”
01/03/25 Alban Berg: Wozzek (Interlude)
Berg’s landmark opera premiered in 1925. Berg worked on it while serving in the First World War. His disgust at the war’s horrors made its way into the composition.
