Concerto for piano op. 42, Part 1

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Title	Concerto for piano op. 42, Part 1
Playing time	00:03:44
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND]
Contributors	Stokowski, Leopold [Dirigent] [GND] Steuermann, Eduard [Klavier] [GND] Stokowski, Leopold [Redner/in] [GND] NBC Symphony Orchestra [Orchester]
Date	1944.02.06 [Aufnahmedatum]
Place	New York, Rockefeller Center [Ortsbezug] New York City [Aufnahmeort]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Gesellschaft ; Konzert - Konzert für Klavier und Orchester ; Instrumente - Klavier ; Vortrag ; Radio ; Besetzung - Orchester ; Radiosendung-Mitschnitt ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 40er Jahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00217_b02_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

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The premiere of Arnold Schönberg’s “Piano Concerto,” op. 42 took place on February 6, 1944 in the Radio City Music Hall, New York. Eduard Steuermann, a former student of Schönberg and pianist at the performance, told Schönberg about the concert a few days later. The composer had listened to the radio broadcast: “Being so deeply involved in all the details of the performance I suffered very much by all the bad ‘accidents’ which happened, though it was beyond my power to prevent many of them. [...] The reasons for the shortcomings were many and the performance could probably have been much better; one of them the inadequate contact with the conductor and the difficulties in hearing (for me) caused by the ‘Sitzordnung’ [seating arrangement] of the orchestra which, as I was told, is the ‘best one’ and ‘successfully tried out’ for radio transmission. (I hardly could hear the woodwinds). [...] It will interest you that the studio hall was crowded (about 1000 persons) and the response extremely warm. I had to reappear 4 times which, as I am told, hardly ever happens in these concerts. More than half of the audience were in uniform. There was the most enthusiastic response from different friends and ‘sympathizers.’ The first one to call me was [Bertolt] Brecht, whom I never have seen as happy about any work of art; later [Artur] Schnabel, who was not present (it was extremely difficult to get tickets) and heard it over the radio.”

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 , Gesellschaft , Konzert - Konzert für Klavier und Orchester , Instrumente - Klavier , Vortrag , Radio , Besetzung - Orchester , Radiosendung-Mitschnitt , Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme

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Sammlung Schönberg

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