Monika Musil and Katharina Wallaberger: idea, concept, and execution
Program (90 minutes) available in either German or English
With the music-educational offering “On the Trail of Schönberg”, the Arnold Schönberg Center invites school groups to get to know the composer and his work directly, personally, and through the senses. In workshops filled with anecdotes and biographical details, children and teens can come to know the person Arnold Schönberg and the secrets of his work, all of which is wonderfully complemented with stories from his own children Nuria, Ronald, and Lawrence.
Schönberg er.lebt! | Workshop for young people aged 6 to 10
Starting from interactive engagement with one of Schönberg’s photo albums, the children become active in a composition workshop and apply themselves with the ingenuity of Schönberg to the design of an exhibition. Access to Schönberg’s multifaceted artistic personality emerges gradually through his music and painting.
Schönberg und ich! | Workshop for young people aged 11 to 14
Through original documents, teens come to know Arnold Schönberg directly. In association with music, writings, and the design of an exhibition, points of contact are made between the world of the composer and that of the participants.
Schönberg ge.hört! | Workshop for young people aged 15 to 18
Schönberg’s musical development from the late Romantic tradition through extended tonal works to his “method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another” is presented through selected examples of his compositions. The music is presented initially without any introduction. Then the students engage with the music from diverse perspectives and listen again to the pieces to their conclusion.
Contribution per student: € 4
Upcoming dates (planned for the end of the semester) can be found in our events calendar.
Registration or additional dates:
+43 1 712 18 8 | office{at}schoenberg{dot}at
Arnold Schönberg’s writings, apart from his compositions, are valuable documents for the musical, intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the 20th century, also for exile studies, and thus for contemporary history. They are evidence of the multifarious interests of an eminent artistic personality and address questions of music, aesthetics, politics and religion.
The database contains pedagogical writings, literary and compositional models, commentaries, writings about music criticism, analysis, and theory, about philosophy, religion, Judaism, politics and contemporary history; lectures, interviews, open letters, memoranda, notes, testimonials and diaries.
Copyright of the Writings: Belmont Music Publishers, Pacific Palisades
Copyright of the Transcriptions: Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Schriften Arnold Schönbergs
Catalogue of Arnold Schönberg´s Writings (pdf)
Annotated books in Arnold Schönberg´s Library (pdf)
Annotated periodicals in Arnold Schönberg´s Library (pdf)
More than 20,000 pieces of correspondence to and from Schönberg have been identified from a large variety of sources. Though copies of most of these letters existed in the collections of the Arnold Schönberg Center, the majority of the original letters are located in other collections.
The Library of Congress has the largest collection of Schönberg letters. Schönberg himself donated all of the letters in his possession in 1951 to the Library of Congress. These consist principally of carbon copies of letters by Schönberg and original letters to him. Also, there is a large collection of Berg letters – Schönberg letters to Alban Berg – in the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) in Vienna.
The term “letter” should be interpreted as any form of correspondence including: letters, postcards, telegrams, notes, etc. Dates are given in the form “year.month.day”.
A published version of the lists at the present web site is available in the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute (XVIII/1&2-XIX/1&2 (June & November 1996 – June & November 1997)).
For permission to publish of letters from Schönberg contact Belmont Music Publishers [mailto: office(at)schoenbergmusic(dot)com].