Thanks. I did not remember those two pieces so I listed to them. My child analogy was flawed and - admit that. Not sure what analogy makes sense with that guy.
The Nacht piece is earlier schoenberg and is not the 12 tone stuff I was refferring to. It is a bit more conventional but I found it dull and boring and not very interesting.
The survivor piece is later 1940s shoenberg. Modern 12 tone style. I like adventerous music like prokofiev and some bartok but have never found a shoenberg piece that I liked. But thanks for the input as I do enjoy being exposed to different stimuli even if I don’t like the pieces! By the way I have visited warsaw and met descendants of holocaust survivors. I did find the naration interesting just not the music.
‘Nacht’ is the last word in post-Wagner German Expressionism. Schoenberg had a period before 12 Tone where he was writing what he called Pan-Tonal music. The piano pieces are a perfect time capsule of turn of the century Vienna and are quite beautiful.