🎼 Schoenberg’s Op. 11 was one of the first truly atonal piano works.⁠ No key. No home. Just raw tension, fractured lyricism, and emotion stretched to its limits.⁠ ⁠ And in 1972, a young Mitsuko Uchida brought it to life in the semi-finals of the Leeds International Piano Competition — with clarity, boldness, and eerie inevitability.⁠ ⁠ 📽️ This footage is incredibly rare. A glimpse of one of the world’s most revered pianists at the very beginning of her journey, fearlessly tackling one of the m