““This closely parallels aspects of Wassilly Kandinsky’s own contemporary stage piece Der gelbe Klang (written about 1909 but not published until 1912), which was once surmised to have been a direct influence on Schoenberg’s work. It is now known, however—since the publication of the Schoenberg-Kandinsky correspondence—that they had conceived this idea independently of one another. ‘It is exactly the same as what I have striven for’, wrote Schoenberg in August 1912, having finally read Kandinsky’s text, ‘. . . only you go still further than I in the renunciation of any conscious thought, any conventional plot’. Actually””
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