Binston Birchill’s Reviews > 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance > Status Update

Schoenberg's compositions have more faith in disquiet than rest, uncertainty than knowledge, difficulty than ease. This type of art—and all good art, in Schoenberg's view—plays out an unfin-ished, intellectual quest. Aiming only "to make things clear to himself,"the artist pursues clarity in open confusion. Here there is no intention of "provoking" an audience with such dissonant compositions, as many might think