A survivor of Warsaw

Schoenberg, the great musician of the 20th century. Starting from late Romanticism, he gradually abandoned the traditional tonality and then found a new "twelve-tone system". "The Warsaw Survivor" is a work written by Schoenberg for recital, male chorus and orchestra. This work is one of the most important works he created. He successfully used the modern music technique of the "twelve-tone system" to express the brutality of fascism and expose the cruel and ruthless nature of fascism.

However, I don't appreciate such atonal music. Because, from an aesthetic point of view, I don't accept such sharp and dissonant musical colors. It does not bring me the enjoyment of beauty. Of course, just like Picasso's paintings, there are always some people who love them and some people criticize them. We cannot say that this kind of music is wrong and has no market. And today I don’t want to discuss the rights and wrongs of such a kind of music.

Schoenberg once said: "The idealistic and greatest goal that a composer strives to achieve is to express himself." Such a sentence exactly expresses the thinking of Western Expressionism in the early 20th century. Artists no longer seek the recognition of audiences and listeners, but follow their own hearts to create. I think this is the reason why art has been able to evolve and develop over the long years of humankind.

To this day, the pattern of our music market is constantly changing. Pop music is flooding the music market, and traditional and classical music has been impacted. Therefore, many musicians no longer pursue their own hearts, but instead produce music that most people like. Here I want to mention a singer who has been throughout my youth - Jay Chou. Different from the now famous "Zhou's R&B", a long time ago, Jay Chou was just an unknown guy on the street. No one wanted to sing the music he created, so he had to sing and compose it himself. As a result, the song "Nunchaku" became the He sings about the streets of China. He is a successful person who follows his own heart, but I believe there are countless losers who follow his own heart. Some of those losers may be forced to survive to please the audience. We are still looking for the music we want most but doing nothing. We cannot all be Schoenberg or Jay Chou, so doing what we want most may be the ultimate answer.