Xavier Güell
25 November 2026 · 18:30
Museu de la Música - L'Auditori, el Fort Pienc, Eixample
Conductor and music producer Xavier Güell will talk with publisher Joan Tarrida about his book Schönberg o la muerte de la música (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2026). The event will be accompanied by live music from a pianist. Arnold Schönberg is undoubtedly, for his contribution to contemporary music, the most important composer of the 20th century. His name is known to all music lovers and yet his work is unknown to most and is still rarely performed today. His life, and even more so his private life, also remains unknown more than a hundred years later. After the volumes devoted to Béla Bartók, Richard Strauss and Dmitri Shostakovich, Xavier Güell succeeds, in this fourth volume that completes his Cuarteto de la guerra, in masterfully bringing within reach of all readers the last great musical revolution to date, and the spiritual and vital pulse that sustains it. These pages reveal a deeply human, hesitant and contradictory Schönberg, apparently withdrawn into his music yet attentive to the world around him, as shown by his political commitment to Zionism. His family dramas, the suicides of people close to him, the whistling and scandals provoked by the premieres of his work in…
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Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026