Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet No. 3 (1927)

Schoenberg diverged from the serial row-form in this String Quartet to the extent that, when questioned about a particular passage by a violinist from Kolisch’s quartet he angrily responded: ’’If I hear an F-sharp I will write an F-sharp . . . Just because of your stupid theory you are telling me what to write?’’ This is an indication of his revulsion towards conceptual responses to composition as an actual expression of feeling in sound. He was telling the theorist What it Is. How did Kolisch look a