Our archive recently acquired a letter from Richard Strauss recommending the “very talented musician” Arnold Schönberg for a teaching position at a conservatory.
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The anniversary brochure "Schönberg 150 07-12|2024", which has just been published to mark the 150th birthday of Arnold Schönberg, is now also available to download.
The Arnold Schönberg Center has received digital copies of Arnold Schönberg’s correspondence with the publisher C. F. Peters from the Leipzig State Archives. These important documents, including the publication history of the Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, are now available online.
Call for Papers: Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries
Our archive recently acquired a dedication copy of Arnold Schönberg’s Theme and Variations op. 43b to Darius Milhaud.
G. Henle Publishers is celebrating Schönberg’s 150th birthday with a wealth of new editions and a dedicated website.
“It is remarkable and significant that these two men both emerged out of the Austrian decadence in 1874 – both of them destined to cause a truly salutary disturbance of vital importance to European culture.” (Ernst Krenek, 1934)
The just-released anniversary brochure on the occasion of Arnold Schönberg’s 150th birthday is now also available as free download.
Arnold Schönberg’s Piano Concerto, op. 42, a landmark of 20th century concert literature, is available in a facsimile edition for the first time. Published by Henle Verlag in cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center, the publication marks the beginning of the anniversary year on the occasion of Schönberg’s 150th birthday.
On the occasion of Arnold Schönberg's 150th birthday, master classes will take place at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna from June 4 to 14, 2024, in the disciplines of Voice, Voice and Piano Duo, Piano Solo and Chamber Music. The master classes are supported by Avenir Foundation Grants of the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna/Austria.
Henk Guittart, former artistic director of the Schoenberg Ensemble and member of the Schoenberg Quartet, has presented a new arrangement of Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 for piano trio.
Musicologist Yuta Asai, assistant professor at Ochanomizu University, has published a new Schoenberg biography.
With this anniversary volume, G. Henle Verlag celebrates the enduring success of its Urtext editions. Among a selection of 17 representative piano pieces is Schönberg's op. 19/2.
The Arnold Schönberg Center digitizes public domain records and makes them available for free. Today we present a recording with two notable Schönberg interpreters.
A collection of early letters by Arnold Schoenberg, edited by Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst, has been published in Japanese in a translation by musicologist Akitsugu Sano.
The Arnold Schönberg Center digitizes public domain records and makes them available for free. For the 100th birthday of Schönberg’s Wind Quintet, op. 26 on 14 April, we present its first complete recording.
Eike Feß provides surprising insights into Schönberg's gradual appropriation of the twelve-tone space and at the same time provides a commonly understandable introduction to his compositional style.
International Symposium at the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna,
11 – 13 September 2024
Dr. Ulrike Anton is the new director of the Arnold Schönberg Center as of March 1, 2023. She impressed with her successful career as an artist, scholar, and manager.
On the occasion of Arnold Schönberg’s 150th birthday in 2024, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport accepts applications for a total of three anniversary scholarships for music composition for the year 2023.
