Serenade op. 24. Menuett. Trio (Excerpt)

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Title	Serenade op. 24. Menuett. Trio (Excerpt)
Playing time	00:04:19
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND] RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc. [Produzent]
Contributors	Rosbaud, Hans [Dirigent] [GND]
Date	1931.11.03 [Aufnahmedatum]
Place	Berlin, Schumann-Saal [Ortsbezug]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 30er Jahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00796_b01_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

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On October 18, 1931 the conductor Fritz Stiedry wrote to Arnold Schönberg: “On November 3 I will perform the Serenade, I am already in the middle of rehearsals.” Later on he informed the composer, who was staying in Barcelona for health reasons, that the work was being broadcast on the radio. Schönberg replied: “Many thanks for your telegram. When we came home and found it, we already knew that we would not be able to hear the piece. We had spent the entire afternoon in vain, trying to find somebody who can hear Berlin.” (Letter dated November 13, 1931) Schönberg had already read about the concert’s huge success in the meantime, though. His student Josef Rufer reported on the “beautiful performance, the music played with such a natural approach, which brought the work an entirely spontaneous, heartfelt success. But it is also indescribably beautiful; with such profound inner merriment that wants to bashfully hide behind all kinds of jokes, yet it is unable to (and you have to laugh so much at that) – […] You must have been in such a terribly good mood at the time.” (Letter dated November 18, 1931)

Despite making several enquiries, Schönberg was unable to receive a full recording of his work, but merely a test recording which begins in the middle of the Menuett [b. 85] and ends after its conclusion, with noises from the musicians resting in the broadcasting studio. This brief passage conveys an impression that the ensemble adopted a lively style of playing in their rehearsals.
(Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)

Collection history

Sammlung Schönberg

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>

Location in the digital collection

Keywords

Musik ; E-Musik , Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme

Part of the collection

Sammlung Schönberg

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Arnold Schönberg – Biography