Arnold Schoenberg vs. Arthur Balfour
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 – 1951
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American avant-garde composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motivic processes as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".
"An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker — the other, what he is capable of giving t…"
Arthur Balfour
1687 – 1746
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, and later issued the Balfour Declaration of 1926 as Lord of the Privy Council, which announced a co-equal relationship between the United Kingdom and its Dominions, laying the groundwork for the Statute of Westminster 1931 which granted full independence to the former colonies.
"Suppose that it was a familiar thought in your minds that there never was at any moment of the year within the limits of your State more than seven weeks food f…"