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I wanted to welcome you, but see that you are here for a while. I came to like the concept of WP:BRD: when an edit is reverted, discuss (don't make the same again, that is). - The larger an edit is, the more likely it gets reverted, because some like myslf - going over the watchlist of 1000 entries over the last 24 hours - will not take the time to study. I feel that confronting the reader at all with one incidence that early in the article was not a good idea, however short the quote. - Happy editing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Wonderful stuff
Thank you for your great expansion and diligent work on Anton Webern. No Swan So Fine (talk) 15:55, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! MONTENSEM (talk) 03:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

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Anton Webern
Hi MONTENSEM. You added references to Anton Webern for Simms and Erwin 2021, but no cite defining that work exists in the article. Could you add the required cite, or let me know which work this references? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:22, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

I'll fix it momentarily. Thanks for catching it! MONTENSEM (talk) 13:55, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


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Webern
Your work on Webern is marvelous and very thorough. I could definitely see it being nominated to be a Good article through GAN. However, there are quite a few issues related formatting and general structuring at the moment. If you are interested in GAN, I would be more than willing to leave comments on Webern's talk page over where the places for improvement currently reside. Do let me know. Best –  Aza24  (talk)   01:00, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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Wording and style at Anton Webern
Thanks for all of your work on the Webern article. I am continuing to see many instances of awkward or inscrutible writing style and diction in the article text. On a previous occasion, I recall that you reverted my attempt at correcting one such sentence. If editors make this sort of copyedit in the future, please know that they are not denigrating the excellent research and collation of material you have done but are just trying to make it more accessible and clear to English-speaking readers. SPECIFICO talk 20:36, 29 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't recall the prior instance, but I'm not so sure these are bona fide improvements. What is "awkward or inscrutable" about "His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision" (my wording) as opposed to "His music was among the most radical of its time in its stark concision"? "Milieu" is actually more accurate and specific, circumscribing the claim being made; it refers not only to time, but place, specifically social environment. "Stark" has (negative) connotations of bareness and simplicity, whereas I used "sheer" more for emphasis. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:12, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * "Stark" connotes harshness, too. "Sheer" is better because it's basically being used as "unmitigated" but with more positive connotations as in "completely evident" or "obvious." MONTENSEM (talk) 22:32, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Your text reads as if it were idioms translated too literally from another language. Is English your first language? The content is excellent, but the text needs a copyeditor. SPECIFICO talk 22:34, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * English is my native language (it's "inscrutable," not "inscrutible"). I have been copyediting the language, especially for concision, but I choose my words with careful intention. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:37, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I would like you to please address my question about your edits rather than speculating about my language skills. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:38, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * My comments stand. This is a little-watched page but as others read your text, they will most likely offer similar corrections. Good luck with your work here. SPECIFICO talk 23:22, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Do they just stand, and are they best described as corrections? "Sheer concision" is a more common hit on Google than "stark concision," so it would seem that the former is more commonly applied. I've already justified my usage of milieu, which is more of a technical distinction, but one that I think is important in circumscribing and specifying the claim being made--in what context is this music what it is?--a particular milieu more than a time. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:37, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
 * There is just something about "stark" that I don't like in this context. "Stark" sounds like something that might be applied to some of Stravinsky's music, as in music of "stark" contrasts. "Stark concision" implies bareness, bluntness, harshness, immediacy, and a certain (rude) simplicity. Webern's music may appear or be simple in some ways, and sometimes it may have bare textures (more often very much not), but it is not generally very harsh; it is expressive. Often it is, one might say, more "sheer" (diaphanous, transparent) in its musical texture and maybe even "abrupt," with a certain characteristic softness. Obviously these are associational or connotative rather than functional aspects of the words "stark" and "sheer" in this very specific context, but even functionally, "sheer concision" gets more at the sense of "completely evident," "utter," or "pure" concision than does stark, which carries quite negative connotations, too, like "a stark [gloomy, sad, depressing] winter day" (whereas Webern's music has ecstatic moments and something of a mystical/religious utopian character to it). Musicologist Deborah Mawer uses the same phrase in her contribution to Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915–1925: "Occasionally, due to its sheer concision, Ravel's own expression is a little ambiguous, [...]." (p. 141). (Coincidentally, one might argue that Webern's "sheer concision" also sometimes makes his expressive intent a little ambiguous: the text painting is very compressed.)
 * I think my original is perfectly acceptable and arguably better. I have taken pains to explain. These were not arbitrary word choices. These are somewhat petty items, especially the choice between synonyms like "stark" and "sheer," and I don't know why you insist on them; they are largely a distraction from more meaningful and substantive work on the article. I invite you again to engage in constructive discussion, not to make it personal by questioning my language skills. Please engage with me constructively and with civility. Given your mere stand or assertion against my arguments, I have restored "milieu" to make the claim that sentence makes less vulnerable and more secure. I would like to restore "sheer," or we could simply apply "concision" without any modifier.
 * Also, if I remember correctly, I did not simply revert the edit you made previously regarding Webern's politics (I would have to look back to see precisely what I did) but rather expanded upon it by adding a quotation from musicologist Julian Johnson summarizing what is a fairly consensus, though debatable, view on Webern among musicologists and scholars. Richard Taruskin, though he has done good work, is well described by many in the article. (For that matter, Alex Ross is a journalist or critic more than a scholar; his work is often criticized on this basis.) In general, my approach has been not to remove things from the article but rather to try to be charitable and sympathetic, as in my edit on what someone else wrote (long ago) on the nature of the Passacaglia's relation to later works at your behest. MONTENSEM (talk) 09:57, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * (There is a widely acknowledged emotional or expressive complexity, depth, and interiority to Webern's music that "stark," with its connotations of bareness, immediacy, harshness, and so on, especially belies.) MONTENSEM (talk) 10:02, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * (This is why Schoenberg's famous quote from the Op. 9 Preface is about compression of depth--'novel in a sigh, joy in a breath'; Adorno says similar things, some of which are already in the article.) MONTENSEM (talk) 10:06, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I also invite you again to defend your preference of "stark" over "sheer," given that the latter appears to be in much more widespread use as appended to "concision." MONTENSEM (talk) 23:04, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * "Stark concision" implies "bare concision," "simple concision," or even "grim concision," whereas "sheer concision" not only better emphasizes the concision itself, but also implies a thoroughgoing, through-and-through, or more complex concision. The latter is more appropriate. There is a reason the latter phrase is in more widespread use. People do not write about concision unless it is interesting or remarkable! MONTENSEM (talk) 23:50, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

I think that, in general, while you have assembled a wealth of valid content and references, you are treating the article page more as your personal academic essay. In Wikipedia terminology, you are placing UNDUE emphasis and making SYNTH connections between statements collated from a wide variety of sources to fit what appears to be your personal narrative. While much of this is valid and reflects mainstream views, some of it does not. It would be good to see the content reflecting your personal points of view and analysis more directly cited to the sources rather than using sources as rungs in a ladder or supporting evidence as one might do in an academic thesis or article of criticism. SPECIFICO talk 15:40, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I invite you to make a specific case rather than to merely assert it. MONTENSEM (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Well when I've done that, even on minor flaws, you have responded by denying the issue and reinserting your preferred text, e.g. "mileu" -- undefined and obscure at its position at the top of the lead -- instead of the readily understood and factually accurate "time".
 * Here's a flaw that you can fix: The several yellow sidebars and narratives accompanying sound files are UNDUE -- your own views supported by cherrypicked primary sources and not encyclopedic in substance or tone. These are the sort of thing that would be diverting and interesting in a magazine article but fail our NPOV policy, which you may wish to review in detail. SPECIFICO talk 21:54, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * "Milieu" is better than "time" because it diminishes potential puffery; it is a well defined term in common use and focuses on the particular context, especially the social context at a time and in a place, whereas time is somewhat under-defined and may overly generalize or universalize the claim. If you feel very strongly, you could change it back to "time," but this strikes me as bizarre.
 * Both excerpts are of music discussed in the body.
 * The Schoenberg on Op. 5 aligns well with Haimo et al. What precisely is your criticism?
 * The Op. 15 caption could be tightened up somewhat, although much of it is simply bare narration and some history as to influence and reception from Julian Johnson and another writer. I'm sure others have written on the piece and could be cited directly; Greg Sandow and especially Anne Shreffler come to mind. I may look at this later. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:20, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The direct quotations in the biography sections could have their captions pared down, although I think they are illustrative and worthwhile, or they could be converted into notes appended to relevant sections of the body. Please be more precise. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:25, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's your personal opinion as an essayist to associate those primary source quotes with those sections of the encyclopedia as if they represent widespread mainstream narratives relating to those sections.
 * Please quote the section of your cited Reliable Source that defines Webern's "milieu" as it is used in that sentence. "Time" is objective and easily verified and his life dates precede that part of the article lead text. "Milieu" defined by observation and you have not described the milieu to which you or Reliable Sources place him at various times in his life. It conveys no meaning to the reader or worse, it conveys a different meaning to each reader who fills in the blanks you open with that undefined term. SPECIFICO talk 22:55, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll have to return to this over the coming days, but let's take it piece by piece, then, starting with the box regarding Krenek. What precisely is suspect or wrong to you about it? We will examine the texts and caption, which are backed by a secondary source (if not a mixture of secondary and primary source material), together, from an authoritative biography of Krenek, which is also used for and aligns well with relevant material from several sources in the body. Be specific in your challenges, please.
 * I will look more at "milieu." Are you wanting a direct quote from someone using "milieu" regarding the concision of Webern's music? Would you like a description of Webern's milieu? MONTENSEM (talk) 23:01, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * if not a mixture of secondary and tertiary source material* MONTENSEM (talk) 23:02, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I would like to add: if we break "milieu" down into its constituent elements, as I have done repeatedly, then we are talking about a (1) time, (2) place, and (3) social environment, all of which are defined within that opening paragraph and throughout the article. This diminishes puffery, because other composers are also noted for their tendency to concision, including but not limited to the two I already mentioned; and, moreover, it aligns well with the closing sentence of the opening paragraph, which is something of a commonplace as to Webern extensively detailed in Moldenhauer and is rigorously defined with a list of works in the KBP citation from the Berg Cambridge Companion. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:40, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, and I want to emphasize this, be concrete. The abstract policies are not making your case; they are just citing policies. Make your case specifically, and I will make mine. That allows us to do this work together and to be genuinely constructive. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:09, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * When I say be concrete, I want to know that you have consulted the material and are not just citing policies at me. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:14, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Finally, I want to know: is my talk page the most appropriate venue for this, or would it not be more appropriate to use the article's talk page? MONTENSEM (talk) 23:19, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it would be more helpful to use the article's talk page in order to facilitate others' participation. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:19, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * re: "widespread mainstream narratives", Krasner's account is applied or cited in this specific context by Bailey Puffett, Morgan, and Taruskin (arguably misapplied in some Taruskin), et al ... these are very mainstream sources, although Taruskin is more controversial, as he himself and many besides him note ... please assume good faith rather than repeatedly accusing me of or insinuating the worst MONTENSEM (talk) 20:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

WP:OR addition of content that fails verification in cited sources
Once again, with this edit you have not only added content that is not verified by the cited source, but that you are also re-inserting after I challenged it by reversion with an edit summary explaining the problem. You cannot claim that an article relating to the early twentieth century reception of Webern's music provides WP:VERIFICATION of the statement that such reactions "remain" today in 2023.

Please use the artilce talk page to respond to the concern that led to "your" text having been reverted. You need to show that the cited source directly supports the associated article content. That's not the same as whether you believe that the cited source is consistent with or implies the article text you have reinserted without discussion or documentation.

I hope you will take the time to understand and respond to the various concerns I have raised on this talk page. If not, the next step would be to involve the community in some form of intervention with respect to these repeated and pervasive problems with your contributions. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 17:53, 1 October 2023 (UTC)


 * No, I added a tag, because that will remind me (and others) to work on this. MONTENSEM (talk) 17:54, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Moreover, in your edit summary ("1980's public reaction to Webern's music"), you somewhat misconstrue the content: "Webern's music remains polarizing and provocative[citation needed] within various communities of musicians and scholars." MONTENSEM (talk) 17:58, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Please be more charitable and genuinely constructive. MONTENSEM (talk) 17:58, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Why did you not just add a tag? MONTENSEM (talk) 18:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * "Remain" would have two or three prongs here to satisfy: was and is. The current source adds to the was. I will look for a citation for the "is," although the remainder of the section delves into examples. This is a commonplace. I think you are being excessively combative rather than genuinely constructive and collaborative. Why? MONTENSEM (talk) 18:02, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, I already have taken time and have begun to address some of your concerns, whereas you have stopped responding and are becoming increasingly uncharitable, not collaborating, and combative. MONTENSEM (talk) 18:06, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Have I sufficiently addressed your concerns on this specific edit with the two citations I added? MONTENSEM (talk) 18:41, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I have no interest in acting as your tutor, especially given your unresponsive and uncollegial reaction to the time and attention I offered you. I hope that you will take the decide to more fully pursue the polies and issues that I've tried to demonstrate to you and that you will channel your efforts in ways that will provide lasting content for our readers. Much of what I see in the Webern article's current version will eventually be removed by editors who, like me, see that it does not conform to our best practices here. SPECIFICO</b> talk 14:43, 1 October 2023
 * This is in response to your unsigned comment below: OK, feel free. I worry that it will be more destructive than constructive, as in this instance, but hopefully it will be more of the latter, with some of the material in the notes better dispersed to other articles and revisions to the narration element of the Op. 15 caption (I recommend Greg Sandow and Anne Shreffler). I doubt I will have time for more this sort of back-and-forth. My time for working on this is limited: I have sought to address concerns and feedback over the years, but these things take time, patience, and collaboration. I have been very responsive and here sought your feedback but have been met with condescension, derision, questioning, evasiveness, a certain manner of talking past or at me, and finally now, refusal. MONTENSEM (talk) 19:04, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I will tag the article in order to attract additional editors to see whether they wish to contribute to the page, and I may copy these two discussions to the article talk page for reference there.<b style="color: #0011FF;"> SPECIFICO</b> talk 21:28, 1 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I think just leave me out of it for now. I will be busy over the coming months and don't want to be distracted by this. I've tried to help, but my time is so limited lately that I can really only work on copyediting this in the cracks, with very little time for larger revisions and content additions, although this stimulated me to take some of it up again, partly to try to satisfy you. MONTENSEM (talk) 21:58, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Who's next?
I'm curious who you'll tackle after Webern? Maybe Schoenberg? I feel like you could do a great job on someone like Ferneyhough or Scelsi.  Aza24  (talk)   06:34, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure. Maybe Berg, the Second Viennese School article, their works (many of which don't have pages), or minor figures within their milieu. Some of what is in the Webern article could be simply relocated. I wouldn't want to tackle Schoenberg. MONTENSEM (talk) 06:51, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It is strange how few of their works have WP pages—but honestly, its also strange how little their music is programmed. These standard classical music surveys give quite enormous attention to the school, considering how there are maybe 4–5 works total which are actually standard repertory.
 * I certainly understand your hesitancy to tackle Schoenberg, but keep in mind that (in my opinion) you may be the most qualified active editor to do so.  Aza24  (talk)   04:15, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * To confirm, this applies to sharing music you enjoy via YouTube links on a user page? MONTENSEM (talk) 22:21, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * This strikes me as having something of an anti-musical bias; certainly you have many quotes on your user page, none of which are strictly necessary and which are all from published works, to which my YouTube links were functionally analogous. In any case, I don't contest it or much care; I was simply trying to be a little more friendly and personal. I note this here for context and consider that the differences between my former user page and yours split hairs in ways that align more to the idiosyncratic differences between music and literature than to any worthwhile matters of contention (especially regarding data space, advertising, or promotion) like this. MONTENSEM (talk) 22:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey @Ruy, you just speedy deleted someone's entire userpage because they included a link to music on it? There is absolutely no rule prohibited such actions, unless you can somehow prove they are "promoting a website or a product".
 * Where is your revert and apology? How bizzare.  Aza24  (talk)   22:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The template you used, includes "where the owner has made few or no edits outside of userspace" in bold text. This user has made 5000+ edits...  Aza24  (talk)   22:49, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Montensem, looks like this editor never response to anyone (judging from their talk page), so I doubt they'll say anything here. Go ahead and recreate your userpage if you'd like. You are not breaking any rules here; you're an active editor including a single non-promotional link.  Aza24  (talk)   22:54, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm sorry, don't worry about it! To clarify, I added more YouTube links, maybe seven total?, and captioned it with "some music I enjoy" at the top (minimal data space–surely we've taken up more here). I just asked Wikipedia to delete the user page myself when I saw the alert to avoid the drama of any formal contention. It's no big deal. I more just wondered as to why they felt it was justified or necessary, especially given the analogy in my mind (that I described). But in any case ...
 * Thank you again. Happy editing! MONTENSEM (talk) 22:59, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * (–Editing, not "hunting of man" ... !) MONTENSEM (talk) 23:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries, I still don't think you did anything wrong. The editor in question, Ruy, seems to go quickly between userpages and delete any newly created userpages with just ext links. Yours fell into that category; even though it was exempt given your surplus of contributions to the encyclopedia, they did not seem to check for that.  Aza24  (talk)   23:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for explaining... I appreciate that a lot. MONTENSEM (talk) 23:11, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @MONTENSEM: Aparently u3 was not the right causal and I'm sorry by that, but I think that links wasn't apropiated for the user page (Please use to tag me). Regards Ruy (talk) 00:11, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Ruy I'll maintain some music that I enjoy on my user page just as you have quotes on yours. It's as relevant to the editing I do here as yours on "hunting". The difference is: since music must be played to be heard, I cannot quote in text passages. Therefore I will use YouTube links and limit myself to a few of them. MONTENSEM (talk) 21:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1
I heard Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schönberg) and can't believe they have no article. I'd go around and search via google for references but I bet you know better ones. Can we perhaps do it together? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, sure! I'll be very busy (moving across the US) this summer, so I may not always be as responsive or as productive I've been able to be the past few months. But I'm happy to chip in! (Aren't the early songs wonderful? Op. 2/ii is a favorite of mine; my spouse sang it and Friede auf Erden some years ago...)
 * in Walter Frisch's Early Works of Schoenberg there is something of an account starting on p 79 more on Schoenberg's 1899 settings from <I> and on</I> Richard Dehmel's Weib und Welt in general (including Verklärte Nacht as an example), but with very little on Op. 1 actually... the Schoenberg Center has great information on Op. 1 specifically and in relation to Alexander Zemlinsky by Dennis Gerlach...
 * I have some correspondence books, which are probably indexed but unlikely to yield very much...
 * in Adorno's Kranichstein Lectures, he says Op. 1/ii represents Schoenberg's synthesis of Brahms' compositional principles with Wagner's harmonic language, which is sort of a classic thing to say (although I think some have since argued that Brahms was on a harmonic par with Wagner)... reaching more speculatively, he compares the Schoenberg's transcription-like piano writing (somewhat less favorably) to that of Debussy's Proses lyriques and says that both seem to aspire to go beyond the limits of a mere song and are almost like bits of oratorio or opera in their length and prose-like qualities... MONTENSEM (talk) 20:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * pp 37–38 of Stuckenschmidt's Schoenberg has a concise account mentioning the premiering baritone and musical qualities: "rich chords, parallel thirds and sixths, and heavy bass octaves"; also like Adorno, notes "sound of the piano is broaden in an orchestral manner," noting tremolos in both hands imitating strings; chromatic alterations in chords a la Wagner; anticipations of Gurre-lieder MONTENSEM (talk) 20:37, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that's good for a start. I'll see when I get to it. Today I had a plan, but a conductor appeared on the recent deaths list, with a sad article, so I focused on that, and it's on the Main page, and yes better but still sad ... - so much for planning. I heard the songs as the climax of this recital. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I wanted to start today but ... - first I looked at Schönberg and found some things crying for improvement (Third Reich, without quotation marks ...), and then looked for a model and thought of his Op. 2, only to find that just miserable, - practically no facts (scoring? structure? composition history? first performance)? The poet wasn't mentioned in the lead. "Tannhäuser, an opera that had been composed by R.W." - such things. I'm going out, but somehow some day that should change, heading for some 150th anniversary ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:43, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I doubt I will get much done this spring and summer, but we will see! I hope you have a great summer. MONTENSEM (talk) 02:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * One day, I might like to create an article on Op. 29—the entire piece is great and so distinctive with the little clarinet choir and string trio, but the third movement with the tonally-inflected bass clarinet melody is quite beautiful ... MONTENSEM (talk) 02:47, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * in the new H Sachs book, some expansion on Sb's Brahms/Wagner synthesis in Opp. 1–3; per H Sachs first he was a Brahmsian but met Zemlinsky who also loved Wagner; later Sb reflected on Brahms as progressive (1933) MONTENSEM (talk) 17:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). - The Sb songs mentioned above, and on the concert program: I finally started today. Feel free to change and expand. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Nice work! I will get to this re: my notes above, haven't forgotten MONTENSEM (talk) 19:59, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * put in some good-faith ce - feel free to revert - will try to put in some more substantial edits re: my notes above this summer between moving
 * Hope you're having a great summer! MONTENSEM (talk) 01:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Got it. MONTENSEM (talk) 16:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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Schoenberg's painting of Mahler
Thank you for adding it to Mahler's article. Right and proper that it should be there, though perhaps it shows that Schoenberg was an even worse painter than he was a composer. No matter, and that's just my opinion. Thank you anyway.  Tim riley  talk   17:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I bet someone has written about why he painted Mahler the way he did ... MONTENSEM (talk) 20:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

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List of compositions by Anton Webern request
Hey Montensem, hope you're doing well. I've been working on the List of compositions by Anton Webern for a bit now. I was curious, do you have any interest in adding a 3ish paragraph lead as an overview on Webern's works?  Aza24  (talk)   05:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, and probably on adding some textual body to the article also. Nice work on it so far! The next few months will be hectic for me (my spouse and I are moving across the US, and they're beginning a new role). So I can't promise when. Maybe in the cracks of my time here and there. Might be fall to do a good job. The Beethoven list of works page is probably a good model. Thinking out loud ... the Moldenhauers catalogued W's works iirc, and there is the Gesamtausgabe project underway mostly in Basel and I think partly in Vienna, Schaftel edited and wrote on some of the first early lieder publications, there are some writings (Tot, Der Weg) and many incomplete works that have attracted scholarly attention ... following the Beethoven page as a model, Julian Johnson wrote in his 1997 repercussions article that Webern straddles Brahms and Boulez ...
 * Unrelatedly on the Schoenberg article, I kind of think his paintings are defining (esp re: Kandinsky, Gerstl, some works have a visual component like Die glückliche Hand), and iirc some scholars do. But it's not a big deal; I don't care to dispute/really discuss that here or on the talk page. Just something to think about maybe! I forgot Mendelssohn was a painter! I guess that sort of thing always strikes me as somewhat significant; it tells you something distinctive about the composer. The lede is probably maximized in length anyway. I might like to maybe work at the whole Schoenberg article, but ... time.
 * Nice work on the Hildegard Jone page! Thanks for that.
 * I hope you're enjoying the warmer weather! MONTENSEM (talk) 19:58, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * food for thought
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Schoenberg_s_Correspondence_With_Alma_Ma/7rKYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=schoenberg+mahler+painting+alma&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover MONTENSEM (talk) 20:11, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the expansion of this work! I believe it could be GA, - should we try? I think that at some point in the article, there should be a footnote saying that the composer's name was Schönberg at the time. I am sorry about the poor hook, - my means of being understood by the current DYK team are limited. I accept that it's tough to describe the music in few words. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * You're welcome, and thanks for asking, starting it, and writing it with me! I'm OK with the GA thing (I personally don't much care about those kinds of things, but I don't mind trying something new or different). I think your DYK was great, and I saw you also highlighted a salient detail for the main article note! I may be a little busy (finally moved, now settling in), and it's hard to say what the next several months will look like, but I always enjoy coming back to music. MONTENSEM (talk) 19:47, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

At least the title was now included on the Main page. I made a footnote about his name. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Good idea! MONTENSEM (talk) 19:42, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - A meeting of two women - the occasion of the cantata - is pictured in our local church. - I'm going to nominate Op. 1 for GA. Which one should we tackle next? Op. 2, or 21? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 2 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Either would be fine. MONTENSEM (talk) 19:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Op. 2 first then ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:39, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Beautiful photos! MONTENSEM (talk) 19:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). - Schönberg's Op. 2 planned for this week. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:40, 20 July 2024 (UTC)