Schoenberg opened a lecture on the composition with the following
tyranny of the majority defense of less common
aesthetics: "Far be it from me to question the rights of the majority. But one thing is certain: somewhere there is a limit to the power of the majority; it occurs, in fact, wherever the essential step is one that cannot be taken by all and sundry."[6]
^Stein, Erwin (ed.). 1987. Arnold Schoenberg letters, p. 206. University of California Press.
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^Schoenberg, Arnold (March 22, 1931). "Variations for Orchestra, Opus 31: Frankfurt Radio Talk", reprinted in Schoenberg, Nuria (ed) (1988). Arnold Schoenberg Self Portrait, p. 41. Cited in Frisch (1999), p. 99.
^Feisst, Sabine (2011). Schoenberg's New World: The American Years, p. 240.
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