Top 5 Favourite Schoenberg Works

[vandermolen]

A Survivor from Warsaw
Gurrelieder
Five Pieces for Orchestra
Verklarte Nacht
er......that's it......

[James]

chamber symphony no. 1 op. 9
string quartet no. 2 op. 10
3 klavierstücke op. 11
five orchestral pieces op. 16
pierrot lunaire op. 21

[Sergeant Rock]

Feeling a bit MI'ish today so I've decided to revise my list while ignoring the rules 

Chamber Symphony No.2 op.38
Suite op.29
Moses und Aron
Gurre-Lieder
Piano Concerto
Five Pieces for Orchestra op.16
String Quartet No.2 op.10

[Mirror Image]

Feeling a bit MI'ish today so I've decided to revise my list while ignoring the rules 

Chamber Symphony No.2 op.38
Suite op.29
Moses und Aron
Gurre-Lieder
Piano Concerto
Five Pieces for Orchestra op.16
String Quartet No.2 op.10

That's the spirit!

[Heck148]

What are your 5 favourites?

5 Pieces for Orchestra
Variations for Orchestra
Moses and Aron
Pelleas & Melisande
Vln Cto

I tend to like most all
Schoenberg, he is one of my favorite composers.

[Mahlerian]

Book of the Hanging Gardens Op. 15
Serenade Op. 24
String Quartet No. 2 Op. 10
String Quartet No. 4 Op. 37
Violin Concerto Op. 36

But really, there's so much to choose from.

[Heck148]

Feeling a bit MI'ish today so I've decided to revise my list while ignoring the rules 

Chamber Symphony No.2 op.38
Suite op.29
Moses und Aron
Gurre-Lieder
Piano Concerto
Five Pieces for Orchestra op.16
String Quartet No.2 op.10

Good list...I could go for that..

[ahinton]

Only 5? Impossible!

Here's some out of which I'd find it impossible to pick just 5:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (and again, sextet version, please!)
Pelleas un Melisande, Op. 5
String Quartet No. 1, op. 7
Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Gurrelieder
Funf orchesterstücke, Op. 16
Variations for orchestra, Op. 31
Kammersymphonie No. 2, Op. 38
and his orchestral arrangement of Brahms' G minor piano quartet.

Best that I can do, I fear!

Erwartung, OP. 17

[SharpEleventh]

Piano Concerto
Violin Concerto
Three piano pieces op. 11
Pelleas und Melisande
Verklärte Nacht

Honorable mentions: Variations for Orchestra and SQ no. 1

[Cato]

Yes, all of it, but...alphabetically

Die Jakobsleiter

Erwartung

Five Pieces for Orchestra

Gurrelieder

Pelleas und Melisande

My next five as of right now (alphabetically):



Moses und Aron

Piano Concerto

String Quartet #2

String Quartet #3

Violin Concerto



Jakobsleiter, the more I have heard it and thought about it throughout the years, may be Schoenberg's most extraordinary achievement (among other most extraordinary achievements ).

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Erwartung
Fourth string quartet
String trio
Piano Concerto
Serenade

And as my stowaway a strong endorsement for a perennial dark-horse work, The Book of the Hanging Gardens. Undervalued as many works are of this vintage: a song cycle.

Since we're all updating, I'd add:

Phantasy for violin and piano, Op.47.

[Mirror Image]

I suppose I should update my list (in no particular order):

Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16
String Trio, Op. 45
Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene (Accompanying music to a film scene), Op. 34
Herzgewächse, Op. 20

Ask me again tomorrow and I'll most likely give a completely different list.

[Daverz]

Totally ninth-tier composer...

Obviously a higher number is better...

Gurre-Lieder
Pelleas und Melisande
Chamber Symphony No. 1
String Quartet No. 4
Violin Concerto

But ask again next week...