String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, op. 7. Statements by participants

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Title	String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, op. 7. Statements by participants
Playing time	00:02:31
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Sprecher/in] [GND] Newman, Alfred [Sprecher/in] [GND] Kolisch, Rudolf [Sprecher/in] [GND] Khuner, Felix [Sprecher/in] [GND] Lehner, Eugene [Sprecher/in] [GND] Heifetz, Benar [Sprecher/in] [GND] Maher, Frank [Sprecher/in] [GND] Kolisch Quartett [Quartett]
Date	1936.12.29 [Aufnahmedatum]
Place	Wien, Wohnung Schönbergs / Schönberg’s residence [Ortsbezug]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 10er Jahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Numbers	10350 [Katalognummer]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00243_b01_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

Arnold Schönberg, residence Liechtensteinstraße. Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

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Arnold Schönberg lived with his family on floor II of Liechtensteinstraße 68/70 in Vienna’s 9th district from September 1903 to January 1910. “Pleasant rooms, with a plain, tastefully decorated simplicity. […] [Schönberg’s] manner is plain and unpretentious, but full of vigor and energy with every artistic remark. While speaking he paces back and forth nervously through the room. His round, beardless face, despite its strangely still, nearly pastoral expression, reacts first. A slight frown, a flaring of the eyes, betrays the activity of his thoughts.” (Paul Wilhelm, in: Neues Wiener Journal, January 10, 1909). A photograph taken in the Liechtensteinstraße apartment shows the composer with a musical manuscript on the piano. This is the fair copy of String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, op. 7, which was begun in this apartment in March 1904.
Almost 30 years after the premiere by the Rosé Quartet on February 5, 1907, the Kolisch Quartet recorded opus 7 on December 29, 1936 in the United Artists Studio as the start to a complete recording of Schönberg’s quartets on a total of seven phonograph records. As a special extra, the empty B-side of the last record contains statements by all the people involved in the recording: Arnold Schönberg (composer), Alfred Newman (producer), Rudolf Kolisch (1st violin), Felix Kuhner (2nd violin), Eugen Lehner (viola), Benar Heifetz (violoncello), Franz Mahrer (sound engineer). (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

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Sammlung Schönberg

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