schoenberg.at - Christmas Gifts. A Festive Insight into Arnold Schönberg’s Library

{"id":2989,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"xmas22e.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/xmas22e.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/xmas22e.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/xmas22e.jpg","title":"","short":"","alt":"","description":"Christmas Gifts \nOnline Exhibition<\/strong> \nDecember 1&ndash;24, 2022<\/p>\n\nOur online exhibition is dedicated to Christmas gifts. We browse the bookshelves of Sch&ouml;nberg&rsquo;s library, open Christmas cards, and flip through favorite reading material from his friends and pupils.<\/p>\n\nOur recent publication &ldquo;Ex libris Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg&rdquo;, with comments and illustrations, is a catalogue of the books and journals from the composer&rsquo;s library stored at the Sch&ouml;nberg Center in Vienna. One varied section of the collection comprises books given as gifts and also dedications by authors, pupils and friends.<\/p>\n\nMany of these Christmas gifts accompanied Sch&ouml;nberg on his journey to the USA in exile. He kept them as precious memories from the old world and &ndash; in the case of books and sheet music &ndash; was also able to return to them for reading many years later. Even so, gifts were not welcome every year. But that is another story. More will be revealed...<\/p>\n\nCurator: <\/strong>Therese Muxeneder \nDigital Realization:<\/strong> Christoph Edtmayr<\/p>\n\nFurther reading<\/strong> \nJulia Bungardt-Eckhart: \nB&uuml;cher und Zeitschriften in der Nachlassbibliothek. Kommentierter Katalog \nEike Fe&szlig; und Therese Muxeneder (Hg.) \n<a href=\"https:\/\/asc-online-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/journal-of-the-arnold-schonberg-center-18-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of the Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center 18\/2021<\/a><\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"163","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"online-exhibition-christmas-gifts","watermark_name":"xmas22e.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

Warmest wishes

Object #1

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Mahler biography

Object #2

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Quite magnificent

Object #3

{"id":2986,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"03-12-dsc01876.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/03-12-dsc01876.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/03-12-dsc01876.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/03-12-dsc01876.jpg","title":"Quite magnificent","short":"Object #3","alt":"","description":"Object #3 \nQuite magnificent<\/strong><\/p>\n\nMendale Moicher Sfurim: Schloimale \nAus dem Jiddischen von Salomo A. Birnbaum \nBerlin: J&uuml;discher Verlag, 1924 \n&ndash; not found in Sch&ouml;nberg&rsquo;s library<\/p>\n\nDearest Friend, My most sincere thanks to you and Johanna for your kind wishes and especially for the fine book <\/em>[Martin Buber: Der gro&szlig;e Magid und seine Nachfolger]. You gave me great pleasure with this gift. It is as if you had sensed that it would be of great importance to me at this precise time. Isn&rsquo;t it remarkable how everything fits into place? I received another book of this nature from Sch&ouml;nberg. Perhaps it is new to you as well: it is the first volume of the collected works by the Jewish poet Mendale Moicher Sfurim, with the title &ldquo;Schloimale&rdquo;. J&uuml;discher Verlag, Berlin. A narrative. Quite magnificent, really! Have you heard of this poet? I am not yet entirely sure when he lived. In any case, he is a Russian Jew and reminds me a little of Dostoevsky.<\/em> \nAnton Webern an Heinrich Jalowetz, M&ouml;dling, 29. Dezember 1926<\/p>\n\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"160","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"quite-magnificent","watermark_name":"03-12-dsc01876.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

With greatest admiration

Object #4

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The splendid Christmas gift

Object #5

{"id":2984,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"05-12-dsc01787-poe-p15.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/05-12-dsc01787-poe-p15.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/05-12-dsc01787-poe-p15.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/05-12-dsc01787-poe-p15.jpg","title":"The splendid Christmas gift","short":"Object #5","alt":"","description":"Object #5 \nThe splendid Christmas gift<\/strong><\/p>\n\nEdgar Poes Werke \n&Uuml;bersetzt von Hedda Moeller-Bruck und Hedwig Lachmann \nBand VI: Groteske Geschichten \nMinden in Westfalen: Im Verlag J. C. C. Bruns., 1912 \nA Christmas gift from Alban Berg to Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg, 1917<\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center, Vienna<\/p>\n\nDear Berg, many thanks for the splendid Christmas gift. I&rsquo;m very pleased with it. Until now I knew very little by Poe. I&rsquo;ve already looked into it a bit. I think I will find it very interesting. In any event, it seems to be far more than mere light reading.<\/em> \nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg an Alban Berg, Wien, 27. Dezember 1917<\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"158","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"the-splendid-christmas-gift","watermark_name":"05-12-dsc01787-poe-p15.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

Learn to pray

Object #6

{"id":2983,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"06-12-dsc01771-jakobsleiter-s32.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/06-12-dsc01771-jakobsleiter-s32.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/06-12-dsc01771-jakobsleiter-s32.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/06-12-dsc01771-jakobsleiter-s32.jpg","title":"Learn to pray","short":"Object #6","alt":"","description":"Object #6 \nLearn to pray<\/strong><\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg: Die Jakobsleiter. Oratorium \nWien: Universal-Edition, 1917 \nA Christmas gift from Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg to his mother-in-law Henriette Kolisch, 1924<\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center, Vienna<\/p>\n\nDearest Mama, It says here: \n&ldquo;Learn to pray: &lsquo;Those who pray become one with God.&rsquo;&rdquo; \nI would like to be a priest, or even better a prophet, of this belief. But if it should be denied me, then I know why. \nYou can also turn the sentence around: \n&ldquo;Those who cease to be one with God lose the ability to pray.&rdquo; \nHopefully &ldquo;Jacobs Ladder&rdquo; will give you a happy, pure Christmas feeling \nWarmest wishes \nArnold \nChristm[as] 1924<\/em><\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"157","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"learn-to-pray","watermark_name":"06-12-dsc01771-jakobsleiter-s32.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

Beethoven letters

Object #7

{"id":2982,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"07-12-dsc01805-beethoven-briefe-b23.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/07-12-dsc01805-beethoven-briefe-b23.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/07-12-dsc01805-beethoven-briefe-b23.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/07-12-dsc01805-beethoven-briefe-b23.jpg","title":"Beethoven letters","short":"Object #7","alt":"","description":"Object #7 \nBeethoven letters<\/strong><\/p>\n\nBeethovens S&auml;mtliche Briefe \nKritische Ausgabe mit Erl&auml;uterungen von Dr. Alfr. Chr. Kalischer \nBerlin und Leipzig: Schuster &amp; Loeffler, 1907 \nA Christmas gift from Alban Berg to Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg, 1910<\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center, Vienna<\/p>\n\nMy dear Berg, You are really very kind, &ndash; I am very pleased with the Beethoven letters!<\/em> [...] My warmest thanks and best wishes. Yours, Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg<\/em> \nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg to Alban Berg, Vienna, December 27, 1910<\/p>\n\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"156","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"beethoven-letters","watermark_name":"07-12-dsc01805-beethoven-briefe-b23.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

The finest Viennese poet

Object #8

{"id":2981,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"08-12-dsc01828-altenberg-a13.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/08-12-dsc01828-altenberg-a13.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/08-12-dsc01828-altenberg-a13.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/08-12-dsc01828-altenberg-a13.jpg","title":" The finest Viennese poet ","short":"Object #8","alt":"","description":"Object #8 \nThe finest Viennese poet<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\nPeter Altenberg:&nbsp;Wie ich es sehe \nF&uuml;nfte vermehrte Auflage \nBerlin: S. Fischer&nbsp;Verlag, 1910 \nA Christmas gift from Heinrich Jalowetz to Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg, 1911<\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center, Vienna<\/p>\n\nDear Mr. Sch&ouml;nberg! \nI believe that, now you are more favorable towards Vienna, these books by the finest Viennese poet in your closer circle of acquaintances will appear of value; all the greater than my belief that Altenberg is very close to you in many essential things. &ldquo;How I see it&rdquo; contains the following sentence: \n&ldquo;I am a searcher, a non-finder, a peace-disturber, a movement-bringer.&rdquo; \nThat could almost have been written by you! <\/em>[...] \nAll the best to you and your family at Christmas time \nYours, Jalowetz<\/em> \nHeinrich Jalowetz to Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg, December 1911<\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"155","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"der-feinste-wiener-dichter-2","watermark_name":"08-12-dsc01828-altenberg-a13.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

Immensely happy

Object #9

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Yours, Webern

Object #10

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Poems during the war

Object #11

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In warmest devotion

Object #12

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A very vivid historical picture

Object #13

{"id":2976,"form_id":34,"category":"category-1","name":"13-12-dsc01746-fueloep-miller-f6.jpg","path":"images\/bagallery\/original\/13-12-dsc01746-fueloep-miller-f6.jpg","url":"https:\/\/schoenberg.at\/images\/bagallery\/original\/13-12-dsc01746-fueloep-miller-f6.jpg","thumbnail_url":"\/images\/bagallery\/gallery-12\/thumbnail\/category-1\/13-12-dsc01746-fueloep-miller-f6.jpg","title":"A very vivid historical picture","short":"Object #13","alt":"","description":"Object #13 \nA very vivid historical picture<\/strong><\/p>\n\nRen&eacute; F&uuml;l&ouml;p-Miller: Macht und Geheimnis der Jesuiten. Kulturhistorische Monographie \nMit 228 Abbildungen \nLeipzig und Z&uuml;rich: Grethlein &amp; Co., 1929 \nA Christmas gift from Alban Berg to Arnold Sch&ouml;nberg, 1931<\/p>\n\nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg Center, Vienna<\/p>\n\nThe book about the Jesuits is very interesting and is confirmation of a number of things I had already thought myself. Beyond that, however, it gives one a very vivid historical picture and I find that very valuable.<\/em> \nArnold Sch&ouml;nberg to Alban Berg, January 20, 1932<\/p>\n","link":"","video":"","settings":null,"likes":0,"imageId":"150","target":"blank","lightboxUrl":"ein-sehr-lebendiges-geschichtsbild-2","watermark_name":"13-12-dsc01746-fueloep-miller-f6.jpg","hideInAll":0,"suffix":""}

Giving Schönberg the score

Object #14

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Do not send any gifts here

Object #15

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Magnificent words about Zemlinsky

Object #16

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Esteemed Master

Object #17

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Missing parcels

Object #18

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Several hours of good entertainment

Object #19

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Quite valuable

Object #20

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Capacity for enthusiasm

Object #21

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Solace and Enlightenment

Object #22

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Most heartfelt wishes for Christmas

Object #23

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A very pleasant Christmas

Object #24

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Christmas Gifts. A Festive Insight into Arnold Schönberg’s Library