The Arnold Schönberg Center is a contributing institution to the international Shared History Project “1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-speaking Lands" initiated by the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.”

We are continuing our insights into Schönberg’s daily and weekly routines with transcriptions and indexing of his calendars for 1918 and 1919; they are now accessible via our image archive.

In July 2020, Österreichische Mediathek completed the digitization of Arnold Schönberg's record collection, which consists of approximately 400 sound carriers. The end of the year will be marked by the broadcast of Schönberg's String Quartet No. 1 op. 7 in a recording by the Kolisch Quartet from the archives of the Arnold Schönberg Center.

By transcribing and indexing Schönberg’s calendars from 1948 and 1949, which can now be viewed in the image archive, we continue the insight into Schönberg’s daily and weekly routines. Since 1936 the composer lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

On March 10, 2020 Christian Thielemann conducted Arnold Schönberg's late romantic oratorio at Semperoper Dresden. The Staatskapelle's last concert before the lockdown in Germany has now been released on CD.

A new volume of the Complete Edition of Schönberg’s compositions, edited by Ulrich Krämer, contains the editorial report for the music text of “Die Jakobsleiter” together with a critical edition of its complete poetic text, including all concept and text drafts.

By transcribing and indexing Schönberg’s calendars from 1945 and 1947, which can now be viewed in the image archive, we continue the insight into Schönberg's daily and weekly routines. Since 1936 the composer lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles. His calendar of 1947 contains not only everyday notes but also a music-historical reflection.

Egon Wellesz studied music only briefly with Arnold Schoenberg but remained forever captivated by his personality. Yet, unlike Alban Berg or Anton Webern, he always maintained a certain distance to his teacher.

The correspondence between Arnold Schönberg and his pupil Roberto Gerhard provides important insights into the life, work and personality of both composers and sheds light on biographical aspects such as their friendly relationship, Schönberg's stay in Barcelona from October 1931 to June 1932, or Gerhard's desperate attempt, with the help of Pablo Casals and other Spanish musicians, to secure binding contracts for Schönberg in Spain in order to enable the Viennese master, harassed by the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany, to move to Barcelona with his wife and child.

By transcribing and indexing Schönberg’s calendars from 1943 and 1944, which can now be viewed in the image archive, we continue the insight into Schönberg's daily and weekly routines. Since 1936 the composer lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

As part of the "ORF Museumszeit", the AUREUM Saxophone Quartet will present works by Ligeti, Mussorgsky, Schönberg, Curtis, Verhelst, Beethoven and Geiss on October 5 under the title "Schein uns, du liebe Sonne".

Since 1998, the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna has been preserving the estate of the composer, painter, teacher, theorist and inventor Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). In 2011 his legacy will be included in the UNESCO "Memory of the World" Register.

In July of this year, Österreichische Mediathek completed the digitization of Arnold Schönberg’s record collection, which consists of approximately 400 records. Among the holdings are some exceptional sound documents, which can now be made available to the public for the first time.

By transcribing and indexing Schönberg’s calendars from 1942, which can now be viewed in the image archive, we continue the insight into Schönberg's daily and weekly routines. Since 1936 the composer lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

By transcribing and indexing Schönberg’s calendars from 1941, which can now be viewed in the image archive, we continue the insight into Schönberg's daily and weekly routines. Since 1936 the composer lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

At a recent auction of autographs, the archive was able to acquire a previously unknown letter from Arnold Schönberg to Smaragda von Eger, sister of his student Alban Berg, dating from 1915.

With the transcription and indexing of Schönberg’s calendars from the years 1939 and 1940, which can now be viewed via the image archive, we receive multifaceted insights into Schönberg’s daily and weekly routines after his move to Brentwood Park.

It is with great pleasure that we present our spontaneously created Summer Concert Series at the Arnold Schönberg Center. On every Tuesday in July and August, we cordially invite you to our one-hour live concerts, free of charge!

As a farewell to the pandemic-related shutdown and teaser for the next concert season: The Arnold Schönberg Center presents an extended piano concert stream for listening and viewing, in which women set the tone.

With the transcription and indexing of Schönberg’s calendars from the years 1937 and 1938, which can now be viewed via the image archive, we receive multifaceted insights into Schönberg’s daily and weekly routines after his move to Brentwood Park.