In his famous essay, ‘Composition with 12 Tones,’ Schoenberg compares serialist composition to Swedenborg’s idea of heaven, a place where there is ‘no absolute down, no right or left, forward or backward.’
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| — | Nick Richardson, “Set on Being Singular,” a review of Bojan Bujic, Arnold Schoenberg, Phaidon, 2011, London Review of Books, 20 October 2011, page 31. |
