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Schönberg gave many interviews in the course of his artistic career; those which we know, published in newspapers, trade journals and radio broadcasts and which are all collected here, span a good 40 years, capturing Schönberg’s oral statements on various topics, their specific questions and answers querying and elucidating his viewpoints at different times, in Europe and the United States.
The sources of these documents include the publications themselves (some of them recalled from the journalists’ memories), transcriptions (many of them bearing Schönberg’s handwritten remarks), radio broadcasts and audio recordings of private conversations with Schönberg.
2019
Hanako Sawada Lacerda, Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
"The Creative Thinking of Schoenberg: Exploring Opportunities for Musical Learning Today."
Markus Böggemann, Kassel / Germany
Schönberg 1914-21 - Lebenswelten und Werke
Steven J Cahn, Cincinnati / USA
The German-Jewish Tradition of Self-Cultivation in Music:
“Bildung” from A. B. Marx to Arnold Schoenberg
Pamela Cooper-White, NY / USA
“Schoenberg’s Moses, Freud’s Moses: A Comparative Study.”
2018
Philip S Stoecker, NY / USA
Berg’s analyses of Schönberg’s String Quartet, op. 10; the Serenade, op. 24; and the Woodwind Quintet, op. 26
Jeremy Eichler, Boston / USA
Schoenberg’s family history and its relationship to the ideals of Bildung und Kultur as defined in George Mosse’s seminal study German Jews Beyond Judaism; Schoenberg’s conversion to Protestantism; Schoenberg’s early relationship to Arnold Rosé and the Rosé Quartet; and the re-interment of Schoenberg’s remains in Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof in 1974.
Asasello Quartett, Köln / Germany
Forschungsstipendium zur Vorbereitung des Schönberg-Streichquartett-Zyklus im Mai 2018 (anlässlich 20 Jahre ASC). Der vierteilige Zyklus mit Schönbergs Streichquartetten wurde erstmals am Center im Mai 2018 gespielt, im Herbst 2019 in Köln wiederholt und soll auch an anderen Orten präsentiert werden. Die Aufführungen von Schönbergs Streichquartetten wurden dabei in ein dramaturgisches Gesamtkonzept eingebettet, wofür intensiv im Archiv recherchiert wurde.
2017
Asasello Quartett, Köln / Germany
Forschungsstipendium zur Vorbereitung des Schönberg-Streichquartett-Zyklus im Mai 2018 (anlässlich 20 Jahre ASC). Der vierteilige Zyklus mit Schönbergs Streichquartetten wurde erstmals am Center im Mai 2018 gespielt, im Herbst 2019 in Köln wiederholt und soll auch an anderen Orten präsentiert werden. Die Aufführungen von Schönbergs Streichquartetten wurden dabei in ein dramaturgisches Gesamtkonzept eingebettet, wofür intensiv im Archiv recherchiert wurde.
2016
keine Vergabe
2015
Mark Berry, London / UK
Rethinking narratives of post-Wagnerian musical history: The case of Arnold Schoenberg
Charles Stratford, Boston / USA
Schönberg, the Serenade op. 24 and Classicism
2014
Fusako Hamao,Santa Monica / USA
Study of Schoenberg’s Sketches and Drafts Written on “JE & Co. No. 12a 20 linig.”
Jean Paul Olive, Paris / France
Musikalische Prosa und instrumentale Geste: Arnold Schönbergs Pierrot lunaire
Franciszek Araszkiewicz, Kraków / Poland
Coherence of serial technique and counterpoint in Arnold Schönberg’s dodecaphonic works
2012
Josep Barcons, Barcelona / Spain
Moses und Aron
2011
Simon Walsh, Michigan / USA
Die glückliche Hand op. 18
Avior Byron, Yavne / Israel
Aufführungspraxis bei Arnold Schönberg
Felix Emter, Berlin /Germany
Von heute auf morgen op. 32
2010
Golan Gur, Berlin / Germany
History as Progress: Arnold Schönberg and the Ideology of Progress in Twentieth-Century Musical Thinking
Charles Stratford, Brigham Young University / USA
Pierrot lunaire op. 21
Thomas Giraud, Paris / France
Die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen der Kunstproduktion Arnold Schönbergs von 1904 bis 1921
2009
Sabine Feißt, Arizona State University, Tempe / USA
»Arnold Schönberg in America«
Gordon Root, State University of New York, Fredonia / USA
»Models for Beginners in Composition«
Nuria Nabieva, Academy of Arts, Ufa / Russian Federation
»Symbolism«
2008
Bryan Proksch, McNeese State University, Lake Charles / Canada
»Schönberg und Debussy«
Hasan Isben Önen, Universität Ankara / Turkey
»Remarks to Form in Architecture and Music«
J. Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina / USA
»Schönberg as Energeticist«
Eric Lecler, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille / France
»Moses und Aron«
Charlotte Cross, New York / USA
»Manuscripts T37.08 and T35.2 from Schönberg’s Gedanke Project:
A Publication of Transcriptions, English Translations and a Commentary«
Eva Schönnenbeck, Université Paris Saint Denis / France
»Die Bedeutung der Polyphonie in den atonalen Werken Schönbergs«
2007
Renate Rohlfing, New York / Hawai / USA
»Buch der hängenden Gärten«
Deborah H. How, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles / USA
»Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, op. 25: Paradoxes and Innovations in Music after World War I«
Stefanie Rauch, Philipps-Universität, Marburg / Germany
»Die Arbeitsweise Arnold Schönbergs – Kunstgenese und Schaffensprozess«
2006
Markus Böggemann, Universität der Künste, Berlin / Germany
»Schönbergs Mozart: Zwischen Radikalisierung und neuer Normativität« sowie »Arnold Schönbergs musikalischer Expressionismus zwischen avantgardistischer Kunstprogrammatik und Historismusproblem«
2005
Alfred W. Cramer, Pomona College, California / USA
»The Sound of Atonality«
Jean-Jacques Dünki, Musik-Akademie Basel / Switzerland
»Schönbergs Zeichen. Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik«
Alexander Carpenter, University of Prince Edward Island / Canada
Research on the waltz as is occurs in Arnold Schoenberg's music.
Matthias Pazdzierny, Musikhochschule Stuttgart / Germany
»Die Aufführungslehre Arnold Schönbergs«
Russell Knight, University of California / USA
Arnold Schönbergs »Erwartung« op. 17
Hasan Isben Önen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara / Turkey
»On Arnold Schönberg. The abstraction of abstract. A socio-cultural study«
Elizabeth Keathley, University of North Carolina / USA
Arnold Schoenberg’s female students
2004
Daniel Callahan, New York University / USA
»Transfigured Text: Richard Dehmel's Weib und Welt and the Music of Arnold Schönberg's Dehmel-Jahr«
Esteban Buch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris / France
»Arnold Schönberg und die Musikkritik bis zum Skandalkonzert 1913«
2003
Jean-Jacques Dünki, Basel / Switzerland
»Arnold Schönberg’s Piano Music«
Florian Heesch, University of Cologne / Germany
»The influence of August Strindberg on opera in the first half of the 20th century«
Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin / Germany
»Zur Werkgenese der Jakobsleiter«
Stephen Peles, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa / USA
»Moderne Psalmen«
Sokol Shupo, Universität Tirana / Albania
»Harmonielehre« (Quellenrecherchen und Übersetzung ins Albanische)
Felix Wörner, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin / Germany
»Untersuchungen zur frühen Schönberg-Biographik«; »Dodekaphonierezeption«
2002
Ina Karr, University of Freiburg / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg and the Stage«
Áine Heneghan, Trinity College Dublin / Ireland
»The relationship between principles of the Schönbergian Formenlehre and the early evolution of the twelve-tone method«
2001
Annegret Seidel, Kunsthaus Dresden / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings (Kuratierung)«
Matthias Herrmann, University of Dresden / Germany
»Schönberg and Dresden/Leipzig«
Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Spätwerk«
Markus Böggemann, Hochschule der Künste Berlin / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Suite for String Orchestra«
Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg als Musiktheoretiker«
Richard Kurth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver / Canada
»Arnold Schönberg: Echoes of the Unrepresentable«
»The Art of Cadence«
Michelle Duncan, Cornell University Ithaka / USA
»Music and Memory«
Marinella Ramazzotti, University of Bologna / Italy
»Pierrot lunaire«, »Moses and Aron«
2000
Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen / Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Der musikalische Gedanke«
1999
Marc Kerling, University of Bonn / Germany
»Moses and Aron«
1998
Elisabeth Sommernes, University of Oslo / Norway
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings«
Further projects at the Arnold Schönberg Center sponsored by the Avenir Foundation:
• Multi-Media Exhibition on the Life and Work of Arnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951) “An Exhibition To Be Heard”
• Critical Complete Edition of the Writings of Arnold Schönberg
• Schönberg Correspondence Digitizing Project
• Arnold Schönberg. Catalogue raisonné
• Outreach programs for children and teenager
• International Student Exchange, Schönberg Academy
This is where artists speak out; aesthetic stances, various branches of art and epochs are juxtaposed with the composer, painter, writer, theorist and pedagogue Arnold Schönberg. Experiences from differing schools of thought are mirrored together with a fundamental, trend-setting work which gave rise beyond its own limits to critical confrontation and which will continue to do so. Starting with the glimpses of Schönberg’s oeuvre and personality as published in commemoratives and anthologies during his lifetime, voices are united which may seem to be growing in their distance to Schönberg in a historical sense, while their subject continues to evince his topicality to this day.
Together with Monika Musil and Clara Murnig, music mediator Hanne Muthspiel-Payer and pianist Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth, both of the tak.tik Werkstatt für Musikvermittlung, alternate as a team to present diversified, 90-minute insight sessions into the life and work of Arnold Schönberg, the father of twelve-tone music.
The programs are differentiated for children and youth; you may select among them for any of the given dates.
| Tuesday 30 January 2018 |
Wednesday 31 January 2018 |
Thursday 1 February 2018 |
8.45 and 10.30 am Duration: 90 Minutes |
| Idea and Concept |
Hanne Muthspiel-Payer, Moderation Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth, Klavier Monika Musil, Moderation (More than 12 notes) tak.tik – werkstatt für musikvermittlung |
Contact and booking Telephone +43 1 7121888 A fee of € 4.00 per student is charged to defray expenses. |
Following programs are available:
Outreach program f. children aged 7 to 10
This program lets children experience a colorful expedition through the life and work of Arnold Schönberg, incorporating live music, hands-on activities, singing, a workshop and an experimenting segment. His fairy tale "The Princess" provides an impression of him as a storytelling father; enjoy new sounds and have fun with Arnold Schönberg.
Download: Funiculi-Funicula
Language: german / english
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfkM2cVZbw
Eine Veranstaltung des Arnold Schönberg Center in Kooperation mit dem Stadtschulrat für Wien und BKA
Workshop-concert f. children aged 11 to 14
Body percussion around the number 12, original audio and film documentation from the Arnold Schönberg Centre’s extensive archive all combine into an immersion into the world of Arnold Schönberg, the man who turned the history of music upside down. Students learn about "painting with light" with the help of Schönberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19, played live.
Language: german / english
Eine Veranstaltung des Arnold Schönberg Center in Kooperation mit dem Stadtschulrat für Wien und BKA
Workshop-concert for young people aged 15 to 19
This event gives young people the opportunity to encounter the extraordinary composer and actively try out his ground-breaking compositional ideas themselves; the result is a meeting with the Vienna School that makes "textbook facts" come to life.
Language: german / english
Tickets
Telephone +43 1 7121888
VISA, Mastercard
Seating
Free choice of seating for all events
Wheel-chair spaces
at special prices at the Arnold Schönberg Center
Evening box office
45 minutes before the performance
20 % discount for single tickets
Vienna City Card
Free admission
for young people 26 and under, visitors with special needs and Kulturpass holders
6-Concert Customized Subscription for € 84
instead of € 108 for single tickets
10-Concert Customized Subscription for € 130
instead of € 180 for single tickets
You can find more detailed and/or differing information in the event detail view.
When printing, the following copyright should be indicated: © Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna. We request that you send us a copy of the printed product. Find a wide range of photos in the image archive. Photos and information to the current exhibition are located here.
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Arnold Schönberg with his cousins Rudolf und Edmund Goldschmied and Malvina Goldschmied
Bad Vöslau (ca. 1884) |
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Quintet with Louis Savart, hornet, Fritz Kreisler, violin, Arnold Schönberg, cello, Eduard Gärtner, violin and Karl Redlich, flute Payerbach (1900) |
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Arnold Schönberg
Berlin (1902) |
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Arnold Schönberg, in the background: Mathilde Schönberg Wien (1907) |
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Arnold Schönberg
Wien (1911) |
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Arnold Schönberg with his children Gertrude and Georg Berlin (1912) |
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Das »Pierrot lunaire«-Ensemble after the premiere of «Pierrot lunaire« op. 21 at the Berliner Choralionsaal: Karl Essberger, Emil Telmányi, Arnold Schönberg, Albertine Zehme, Eduard Steuermann, Hans Kindler and Hans W. de Vries. Berlin (16. Oktober 1912) |
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Josef Polnauer, Eduard Steuermann, Anton Webern, Paul Königer, Gertrude Schönberg, Marya Freund, Mathilde Schönberg, Heinrich Jalowetz, (?), Arnold Schönberg, (?), Emil Hertzka, Edward Clark with Georg Schönberg, Albertine Zehme, Erwin Stein, (?); Photographed after a performance of the »Gurre-Lieder«. Leipzig (1914) |
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Arnold Schönberg in uniform (1916) |
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Schönberg´s daughter Gertrud Greissle with her son »Bubi« Arnold, Arnold Schönberg and Felix Greissle Traunkirchen (14. September 1923) |
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Anton Webern and Arnold Schönberg Berlin (1927) |
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Schönberg with his Berlin master class: Josef Zmigrod, Walter Goehr, Walter Gronostay, Winfried Zillig, Erich Schmid, Josef Rufer and Adolph Weiss Berlin (1926) |
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Arnold and Gertrud Schönberg with Foxterrier Witz
Roquebrune-Cap Martin (1928) |
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Wassily and Nina Kandinsky, Gertrud and Arnold Schönberg
Pörtschach (1927) |
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Oskar Kokoschka, Gertrud and Arnold Schönberg, Adolf Loos at the Bristol Bar Berlin (1927) |
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Arnold Schönberg Los Angeles (ca. 1935) |
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Arnold Schönberg´s hands Los Angeles (1940) |
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Arnold Schönberg teaching
Los Angeles (1940er) |
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Portrait Arnold Schönberg
Los Angeles (1940er) |
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Arnold Schönberg, in front of his house in Brentwood Park Los Angeles (1947) |
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Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien. View from Schwarzenbergplatz |
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Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien. Auditorium |
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Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien. Archive |
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Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien. Reconstruction of Schönberg´s last study in Los Angeles |
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Arnold Schönberg in front of his house in Mödling, Bernhardgasse 6 (um 1920) |
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Schönberg-House Mödling |
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Schönberg-House Mödling |
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Schönberg-House Mödling |
Arnold Schönberg: Transfigured Night op. 4 | Arnold Schönberg, conductor | Berlin, 1929 | 12:10 (excerpt)
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Song of the Wood dove | Arnold Schönberg, conductor; Rose Bampton, mezzo soprano; Cadillac Symphony | New York, 8 April 1934 | 16:40
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire op. 21 | Arnold Schönberg, Dirigent; Erika Stiedry-Wagner, voice; Leonard Posella, flute & piccolo; Kalman Bloch, clarinet & bass clarinet; Rudolf Kolisch, violin & viola; Stefan Auber, violoncello; Edward Steuermann, piano | Columbia M461 (1941)
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: From today till tomorrow op. 32 | Arnold Schönberg, conductor| Funkstunde Berlin, 1930 | 13:30 (excerpt)
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Kol Nidre (rehearsal recording) | Arnold Schönberg, conductor | Los Angeles, 1938 | 35:52
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Gustav Mahler: II. Symphonie | Arnold Schönberg, conductor ; Cadillac Symphony | New York, 8 April 1934 | 11:30 (excerpt)
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Klavierwerke (op. 11, 19, 23, 25, 33a & b) | Eduard Steuermann, Klavier | Columbia ML5216 (1957)
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Suite op. 29 | Rudolf Kolisch, conductor | New York, April 1940
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Chamber symphony op. 38 | New Friends of Music, Fritz Stiedry | New York, 15 December 1940 | 23:41
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Chamber symphony op. 38b (Arr. for two pianos) | Clara Silvers, Leonard Stein, piano | Los Angeles, 1943 | 15:11
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: String Trio op. 45 | Koldofsky Trio | Adolf Koldofsky, violin; Cecil Figelski, viola; George Neikrug, violoncello | Dial, 1950 | 17:20
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Arnold Schönberg: Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment op. 47 | Adolf Koldofsky, violin; Eduard Steuermann, piano | Dial, 1951 | 9:16
→ Arnold Schönberg Audio Database
Click on the titles to see more details and transcriptions!
VR01 Diskussion im Berliner Rundfunk | 31 March 1931 | 6:27
VR02 Kol nidre | 193-?
VR03 Orchestervariationen op. 31. Vortrag | 22 March 1931 | 17:23
VR04 Streichquartette | 29/30 December 1936 | 4:42
VR05 Tribute to George Gershwin | 12 July 1937 | 0:58
VR06 Serenade, op. 24 | Christmas 1937 | 0:13
VR07 How can a music student earn a living (1. Version) | after 1939 | 15:14
VR08 How can a music student earn a living (2. Version) | after 1939 | 10:03
VR09 Afrika | 194-? | 3:14
VR10 Belohnt hat | 194-?
VR11 Frankly I don't know | 194-?
VR12 Is, I think, suitable | 194-? | 0:42
VR13 Prinzessin | 194-? | 10:22
VR14 Speech | 194-?;
File currently not available.
VR15 This composition has never been | 194-? | 0:04
VR16 To the San Francisco roundtable on modern art | 194-? | 16:15
VR17 Kammersymphonie, no. 2; arr. piano (4 hands) | 9 December 1943 | 0:59
VR18 To the National Institute of Arts and Letters(»Boiling water speech«) | 22 May 1947 | 4:27
VR19 For the broadcast (1st version) | 1948 | 1:00
VR20 For the broadcast (2nd version) | 1948 | 1:10
VR21 To the birthday of broadcasts of contemporary music | 13 September 1948 | 4:28
VR22 Letter, Los Angeles, to Clara Steuermann, New York | October 1948 | 2:07
VR23 Alban Berg (1st speech) | 1949 | 2:58
VR24 Rose Bampton, Karl Kritz, and Arnold Schoenberg | 1949 | 11:47
VR25 For the broadcast of the String trio | May 1949 | 3:55
VR26 Letter, Los Angeles, to Amadeo de Filippi, New York | 13 May 1949 | 1:33
VR27 Letter, Los Angeles, to Ediciones Mexicanas (Blas Galindo & Rudolfo Hallfter), Mexico | 13 May 1949 | 0:59
VR28 For my broadcast | 23 August 1949 | 4:15
VR29 My evolution | 29 November 1949 | 41:53
VR30 Who am I? | 29 November 1949 | 2:35
VR31 About turning the other | 195-? | 0:41
VR32 Auf Englisch oder Deutsch | 195-? | 0:02
VR33 Letter, Los Angeles, to Sylvia van Ameringen, Paris | 195-? | 0:15
VR34 More about the records | 195-? | 0:11
VR35 The nonprofit centers | 195-? | 0:10
VR36 Perhaps one of the companies | 195-? | 0:17
VR37 Verdient eine Züchtigung | 195-? | 0:20
VR38 We have today a style of performance | 195-? | 0:17
VR39 Der zweitbeste Freund | 195-? | 1:02
VR40 Cal-Tech, EE-200. Seminar in sound | 1950 | 32:00
VR41 Museum talk on painting | 1949 | 10:53
VR42 Napoleon patience | 1950? | 10:54
VR43 To continue communicating | January 1950 | 0:30
VR44 Brief, Los Angeles, an Edward B. Marks Music Corp. (Joyce Goldberg), New York | 2 March 1951 | 2:10
VR45 Brief, Los Angeles, an Oskar Adler | 3 March 1951 | 3:47
VR46 Brief, Los Angeles, an Capitol Records (Richard C. Jones), Hollywood | 3 March 1951 | 2:14
VR47 Brief, Los Angeles, an Josef Rufer, Berlin | 3 March 1951 | 2:56
VR48 Brief, Los Angeles, an Ross Russell, New York | 3 March 1951 | 1:46
VR49 Brief, Los Angeles, an Georg Schönberg, Mödling, Austria | 3 March 1951 | 4:10
VR50 Brief, Los Angeles, an Clara Steuermann, New York | 3 March 1951 | 0:57
VR51 Brief, Los Angeles, an Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Berlin | 3 March 1951 | 1:28
VR52 Brief, Los Angeles, an Winfried Zillig, Frankfurt
VR53 Forward to a Broadcast of the Capitol Recording of Pelleas and Melisande | 15 February 1950 | 2:18
