Aaron Wyanski – ‘SCHOENBERG: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11’ [EP] [Album Review]

Maine-based composer, pianist, and musicologist Aaron Wyanski recently released his EP, SCHOENBERG: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11, continuing his exploration of and homage to the great composer Arnold Schönberg. Fascinated by Schönberg’s compositions from a young age and his concept of atonality, this EP is Wyanski’s third in a series of deep dives into the concept via the medium of jazz. Known as one of history’s most famous music theorists, Arnold Schönberg’s atonality theory and structure have been deemed one of the most influential on modern music; his compositions in the early 20th century gave way to the genre of jazz as we know it today, and forward into almost all genres which are popular today. Following the idea, not only from Schönberg, but from other dissonant and experiment...

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