"The idea is not the musical theme, but the work itself. Just as an apple tree conceives an entire apple and a human being creates a complete child, not just parts of it!"
Arnold Schönberg, 1931
Last Call!
International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses 2026
for Voice, Voice & Piano Duo, Piano Solo and Chamber Music
July 7–17, 2026
💡 Application Deadline this Sunday💡
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Today, 100 years ago, Arnold Schönberg’s ‘Texte’ was published by Universal Edition, Vienna. This copy from the composer’s library was hand-bound by himself.
➡️ International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses 2026 ⬅️
Voice | Voice & Piano Duo | Piano Solo | Chamber Music
July 7–17, 2026
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🏛️ Study where Schönberg lived and composed
🎵 Perform at the Arnold Schönberg Center
💡 Apply until February 1, 2026
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In 2024 talented musicians gathered in Vienna to explore Schönberg’s music. Listen to the experience the young, thriving spanish ensemble Trío Nacedo made.
Join us for the International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses 2026!
💡 Application deadline: February 1, 2026
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In July 2024, talented young musicians gathered in Vienna to explore Schönberg’s music.
Listen to the experience aspiring pianist & composer Zsófi Persányi made.
Apply now for the International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses 2026!
💡 Application until February 1, 2026
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Here’s a glimpse into last year’s Masterclasses, captured by participant Amador Buda.
Join the International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses 2026 and apply now!
📅 July 7–17, 2026
💡 Application deadline: February 1, 2026
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Did you know that Schoenberg's piano piece op. 23/1 was originally dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy? In the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Center 17/2020, Ulrich Krämer was able to reconstruct the genesis of this piece. You can read the article on musiconn → doi.org/10.70482/jas...
From July 7–17, 2026, the Arnold Schönberg Center hosts its International Arnold Schönberg Masterclasses in Voice, Voice & Piano Duo, Piano Solo, and Chamber Music in Vienna!
Gain deep insights into his work and be inspired by new artistic impulses!
All details: schoenberg.at/en/outreach/...
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...
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
Beware of AI in spreadsheets!
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.
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...
"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?
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...
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!
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?
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.
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.
This whole AI thing doesn't seem very polished yet ...
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.’
On the occasion of the current exhibition ‘Painted Music’: art prints of Arnold Schönberg's paintings in our shop → linktr.ee/arnoldschoen...
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.
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...
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.
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.
Random Objects from the Archive #36
Some of Schönberg's handdrawn graphs from Fundamentals of Musical Composition
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.
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.
