Anniversary exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthdays of Arnold Schönberg & Karl Kraus
"You have taught me to write, almost to think." (Schönberg to Kraus, 1911)
"It is strange and significant that the Austrian Decadence produced these two men in the same year, 1874, who are destined to provoke a truly salutary and decisive unrest for European culture in countless generations." (Ernst Krenek, 1934) The anniversary exhibition at the Arnold Schönberg Center traces the origins, parallels, discontinuities and ruptures of this/these unrest(s) in the footsteps of two decisive driving forces of Viennese Modernism. As an advocate of progress in music, Schönberg stood for the courage to deviate from convention. He helped shape the interdisciplinary orientation of Viennese Modernism and was also active as a writer and painter. As a moral arbiter of language, Kraus waged a relentless battle against corrupting newspaper phrases, double standards and aesthetic uniformity. The two jubilarians were united by an unspoken understanding in artistic and social matters, a common ethical program aimed at claiming truth in all areas of art.Music manuscripts, writings, paintings and drawings, letters and photographs trace Schönberg and Kraus' crossroads through more than three decades, accompanied by kindred spirits from architecture, poetry, painting and music. Digitally animated scores, film clips and voices from the past transport us to a world that only seems to have disappeared.January 17 to May 10, 2024
Arnold Schönberg, Satire (Karl Kraus), May 1910, oil on cardboard, Catalogue raisonné 111, Belmont Music Publishers, Pacific Palisades, CA
The Arnold Schönberg Center
The Arnold Schönberg Center has been the central repository of Schönberg's legacy and a public cultural center in Vienna since 1998. Arnold Schönberg - composer, painter, teacher, theorist and inventor - was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. Longer stays took him to Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and Boston. In the history of composition, Schönberg's name is associated with an epochal innovation, the "method of composition with twelve notes related only to each other". At the Center, exhibitions on Schönberg's life and work, a selection of his pictorial oeuvre, the reconstruction of his Los Angeles study, a library on themes of the Viennese School, as well as concert series, lectures, workshops and symposia provide a deeper insight into Schönberg's musical and pictorial oeuvre. The offer is aimed at the interested public as well as academics. Visitors to the Center can also view Schönberg's music manuscripts, writings and correspondence.
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