Online exhibition in 80 objects
Piano Piece, op. 11/2
Object #51
Arnold Schönberg
Piano piece, op. 11/2
1909
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
The painter Richard Gerstl committed suicide on November 5, 1908, several months after his affair with Mathilde Schönberg was discovered. One of the first works composed by Schönberg after Gerstl’s death reflects his dismay at the painter’s tragic death with musical symbolism. The notes D/re (Richard), A (Arnold), E flat – pronounced in German as “s” (Schönberg) and G (Gerstl) in the Piano Piece, op. 11/2 specify the protagonists of a tragedy. A chord formed from these notes repeatedly returns in the piece, both in its original form and also transposed. The somber sound atmosphere, with its foundation in bass ostinato figures, can be characterized as funèbre.
Self-Portrait
Object #1
Theory of Harmony
Object #2
Hatred
Object #3
Arnold Schönberg
Object #4
Hatred and Critic
Object #5
Aphorisms
Object #6
Response to scholarly questions
Object #7
Poetry
Object #8
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Object #9
Dank [Thanks], op. 1/1
Object #10
Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm (Jesus bettelt) [Give me your golden comb (Jesus begs)] op. 2/2
Object #11
Arnold Schönberg
Object #12
Memory of Oskar Kokoschka
Object #13
A rendezvous
Object #14
A rendezvous
Object #15
Arnold Schönberg
Object #16
Blue Gaze
Object #17
String Quartet No. 2, op. 10/4
Object #18
Chamber Symphony No. 2, op. 38
Object #19
Red Gaze
Object #20
String Quartet No. 1, op. 7
Object #21
String Quartet No. 1, op. 7, Adagio
Object #22
Analysis of Opus 7
Object #23
I may not gratefully, op. 14/1
Object #24
Gaze
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If I do not touch your body today, op. 15/8
Object #26
Expectation
Object #27
Letter to Hermann Bahr
Object #28
On Opera
Object #29
Expectation, op. 17
Object #30
An Ambition
Object #31
Gazes
Object #32
Painting Influences
Object #33
Photographs
Object #34
Music and Psycho-Analysis
Object #35
Art salon Hugo Heller
Object #36
Publishing house Hugo Heller
Object #37
Gaze
Object #38
Letter to Mathilde Schönberg
Object #39
Florizel’ s spirits]
Object #40
Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler
Object #42
Piano Piece, op. 19/6
Object #43
Funeral of Gustav Mahler
Object #44
Gustav Mahler
Object #45
Tears
Object #46
Gustav Mahler’s grave
Object #47
Bells at Thury
Object #48
Gaze
Object #49
Sketch of a piece for orchestra
Object #50
Piano Piece, op. 11/2
Object #51
Draft of a will
Object #52
Vision of Christ
Object #53
Pauline Schönberg
Object #54
Self-Portrait
Object #55
Mathilde Schönberg
Object #56
Requiem
Object #57
After Mathilde’s death
Object #58
Gaze (Karl Kraus: The Great Wall of China)
Object #59
Adorn thyself, o dear soul
Object #60
Gaze
Object #61
Foliage of the Heart, op. 20
Object #62
Self-Portrait
Object #63
Portrait
Object #64
Arnold Schönberg’s apartment
Object #65
Seraphita, op. 22/2
Object #66
Woodcut on Schönberg’s Jakobsleiter
Object #67
Drawing in reply to a dedicated woddcut
Object #68
Jacob’s Ladder
Object #69
Adolphe Willette’s last vision
Object #70
Jacob’s Ladder, The Soul
Object #71
Jacob’s Ladder, recitation
Object #72
Gaze
Object #73
Jacob’s Ladder
Object #74
Offstage orchestras
Object #75
Thinking
Object #76
Moses und Aron
Object #77
Self-Portrait
Object #78
Moses und Aron
Object #79
Self-Portrait
Object #80