Variations on a recitative for organ, op. 40

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Titel	Variations on a recitative for organ, op. 40
Spieldauer	00:04:43
Urheber/innen	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND]
Mitwirkende	Mason, Marilyn [Orgel] [GND] University of Michigan [Produzent]
Datum	1949.12.16 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort	Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Hill Auditorium [Ortsbezug]
Schlagworte	Musik ; E-Musik ; Instrumente - Orgel ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 40er Jahre
Typ	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Sprache	Englisch
Signatur	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00760_b01_k02
Medienart	Mp3-Audiodatei

University of Michigan, Hill Auditorium, AndrewHorne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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In the summer of 1949 the organist Marilyn Mason visited Arnold Schönberg at his house in Los Angeles. She was able to fulfill one of the composer’s long-standing wishes: “One of his special requests was that he hear the Variations [op. 40] on the organ, so I made arrangements to play them for him at a Los Angeles church. He was transported by car and wheelchair to the church, where he heard, as he told us afterwards, the work performed for the first time on the organ. […] Mr. Schönberg remarked that because of its difficulty he felt that it had not been played often in this country, although he said he had heard that some European organists had played it. […] Schönberg himself knew very little about the organ as an instrument, and he said he wrote the work so that he could learn. He said, too, that he wished he had written more for the organ. He was surprised that the Variations had not been more often performed. To my reply, ‘They are very difficult to play,’ his answer was ‘That’s the way I wanted them!’ […] I must say that I have never tired of this work; l have played it for nine years. Whenever I return to it, I come back to an old friend, and sometimes one who pictures a new side to his personality.” (Marilyn Mason, 1956). (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)

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Im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit dem Arnold Schönberg Center sichert die Österreichische Mediathek seit April 2019 die Schallplattensammlung des Komponisten digital. Der Nachlass Arnold Schönbergs steht seit 1998 im Arnold Schönberg Center in Wien zur Verfügung.

Die Sammlung umfasst über 400 Schallplatten mit eigenen Kompositionen, fremden Werken sowie vereinzelten Sprachaufnahmen. Professionelle Produktionen stehen neben dokumentarischen Mitschnitten. Schönberg war technischen Neuerungen aufgeschlossen und nutzte Medien zur Tonaufzeichnung auf vielfältige Weise. Die frühesten Audio-Dokumente gehen auf Arnold Schönbergs Zeit in Berlin und sein zunehmendes Engagement für den Rundfunk zurück, dessen Potenzial zur Verbreitung aktueller Musik er bereits früh erkannte. Frühe Tonträger der Sammlung entstanden oft als Versuchsaufnahmen im Kontext von Radioübertragungen. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden seine Schallplatten wichtiges Kommunikationsmittel im Kontakt mit Europa.

2011 wurde der Schönberg-Nachlass von der UNESCO in das Weltdokumentenerbe-Register (Memory of the World) aufgenommen.

Zur Sammlungsgeschichte siehe auch <link>https://www.schoenberg.at/images/stories/bilder_statische_artikel/archiv/ethikbewahrens.pdf<link>

In cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center, the Österreichische Mediathek digitally preserved the composer's record collection in April 2019. Arnold Schönberg’s Estate was made available at the Arnold Schönberg in 1998, after the collection had been moved from Los Angeles.

The composer owned over 400 phonograph discs with his own compositions, works by other composers, and also the occasional voice recording. Professional productions are found alongside documentative recordings. Schönberg was open to technical innovations and used sound recording media in various ways. The earliest audio documents stem from the composer’s time spent in Berlin and his increasing commitment to the radio, whose potential for broadcasting contemporary music to a larger audience was recognized by Schönberg at a very early stage. Early sound storage media from Schönberg’s collection often contain test recordings for radio broadcasts and only excerpts of the compositions played. And after the war, phonograph discs were an important means of communication with Europe.

In 2011 Schönberg’s Estate was inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

For the history of the collection see also <link>https://www.schoenberg.at/images/stories/bilder_statische_artikel/archiv/ethikbewahrens.pdf<link>

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