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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · 6d

Now available open access – the comprehensive catalog of Arnold Schoenberg's library, compiled by Julia Bungardt-Eckhardt. Immerse yourself in Schoenberg's literary, music-historical, and philosophical worlds. Provided by musiconn → doi.org/10.70482/jas...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · 28d

New Website of the Arnold Schönberg Center now online!
The Arnold Schönberg Center’s website has undergone a complete redesign, enhancing both its visual appeal and functionality. Take a look → schoenberg.at/index.php/en

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Aug 22

Beware of AI in spreadsheets!

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Aug 22

The German Neue Zeitschrift für Musik has published an issue about the city of Vienna! It also includes an interview with director Ulrike Anton and archivist Eike Feß by Monika Voithofer.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fresh from the Press: Portrait Arnold Schönberg. Everything you always wanted to know about the grandmaster of new sounds in the form of a Leporello. Now available in our shop → linktr.ee/arnoldschoen...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jul 24

"The instrumentation aids seem to me, as far as I have understood Mr Stein, to be a happy idea." What does Schönberg's publisher Emil Hertzka talk about? What did Schoenberg construct? We do not know! Does anyone have any ideas?

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jul 15

70 years ago was the cinema premiere of ‘The Cobweb’, the first film whose music was based entirely on Arnold Schönberg's twelve-tone row. The composer Leonard Rosenman studied with Schönberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola, among others. Listen to it on YouTube → youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Cobweb (1955) Leonard Rosenman - YouTube

Film Score Monthly FSMCD Vol. 6, No. 14 (tracks 6-16) Release date: Sep-2003 Track listing: ... 6. Main Title (The Cobweb) (03:47) 7. Holcomb's Episode/Drape...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jul 10

Last week, Austrian conductor Katharina Wincor and Rolf Haas, concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, visited the archive of the Arnold Schönberg Centre. They were impressed by the large-format score of Phantasy op. 47!

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jun 17

100 years ago, Schönberg wrote to his friend Zemlinsky: "Dear Alex, do you still remember the question you asked me recently about the 12-tone composition technique? This is how the first movement of my suite begins: 4 six-part chords, I-IV-V-I. - Ouverture." Who gets Schönberg's subtle humour?

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you to Tiroler Landestheater for a particularly entertaining and successful production of Schönberg's opera Von heute auf morgen! Congratulations to the protagonists Mojica Erdmann & Benjamin Chamand - not forgetting Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck under the direction of Gerrit Prießnitz.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thomas Mann was born 150 years ago today. His relationship with Arnold Schönberg was later perceived primarily through the Doctor Faustus controversy. However, we should not forget that the two had been in good personal contact for a long time and also met regularly in Los Angeles.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Apr 28

This whole AI thing doesn't seem very polished yet ...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Mar 28

Today, 105 years ago, Alban Berg sent a postcard to his former teacher Schönberg: ‘Wherever this card may meet you, it is intended to convey our warmest Easter wishes.’

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Mar 24

On the occasion of the current exhibition ‘Painted Music’: art prints of Arnold Schönberg's paintings in our shop → linktr.ee/arnoldschoen...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Mar 24

Random objects from the archive #39
A drawing booklet from Schönberg's estate. The small pamphlet was published around 1920. Schönberg occasionally took pencil in hand at that time, among other things to draw some caricatures. However, it is questionable whether he used the instructions to do so.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Mar 10

Heute Abend, 6:30 PM: Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Gemalte Musik. Atelierbesuch bei Arnold Schönberg" – am Arnold Schönberg Center, sowie live auf facebook und YouTube → www.youtube.com/live/2pcAn_T...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Feb 14

Today, 95 years ago, Schönberg completed his Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene op. 34. The autograph of the composition is now lost, only a negative copy has survived.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 31

Today, 75 years ago, José Limón, one of the leading exponents of modern dance at the time, asked Schönberg for permission to use the Chamber Symphony op. 38 for a #ballet.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 30

Random Objects from the Archive #36
Some of Schönberg's handdrawn graphs from Fundamentals of Musical Composition

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 28

On the occasion of #InternationalLegoDay, we would like to remind you of a very special way of communicating new music, initiated by the Facebook group #ContemporaryClassicalMusic.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 24

The archive of Belmont Music Publishers, was completely destroyed in the fires in L. A. In order to preserve for posterity the scores and parts of Schönberg's works released since Belmont's founding in 1964, the Arnold Schönberg Center started a digital reconstruction of the publisher's editions.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 23

Today, 85 years ago, Schönberg speaks at a meeting of the Pomona Valley Musicians' Club on the subject of “New musical organisms”.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 20

In the current issue of the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center, Benjamin Levy writes about the phenomenon of short pieces in the Viennese School and discusses it in the context of literary aphorism. The article is freely accessible here → doi.org/10.70482/jas...

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 17

Random Objects from the Archive #35
Schönberg's score of string quartets by Franz Schubert. The self-applied markers help to find a piece quickly.

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ascschoenberg @ascschoenberg.bsky.social · Jan 13

Today, 105 years ago, #AlbertEinstein gives the lecture ‘The Theory of Relativity’ at the Konzerthaus Vienna. Who knows, maybe Schönberg was there?

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