Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht was, at least according to him, rejected for performance because it contained a single chord which did not exist within contemporary theory. The image here is from his text, you can see it’s an Ab7 with a Bb in the bass, an inverted 9th, eek.

Well, said a chastened Arnie, I can’t blame them, one can’t very well ask a musician to play something which doesn’t exist.

https://monoskop.org/images/8/84/Schoenberg_Arnold_Style_and_Idea.pdf (image p. 189)

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Last edited by Mark Hayes; 01/31/22 07:13 AM.