String Quartet No. 1 in D minor op. 7. Finale

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Title	String Quartet No. 1 in D minor op. 7. Finale
Playing time	00:04:17
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND] Kolisch Quartett [Quartett]
Date	1936 [Aufnahmedatum] 1937 [Aufnahmedatum]
Place	Gmunden, Hois’n-Wirt / Hois’n Tavern [Ortsbezug]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - Nullerjahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Numbers	10350 [Katalognummer]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00242_b01_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

Gmunden, Hois’n Tavern. Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

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While spending his summer vacation with his family at the tavern “Hois’n Wirt” in Gmunden am Traunsee in 1905, Arnold Schönberg worked on his String Quartet No. 1 op. 7 which he had already begun in 1904. Some programmatic notes have been preserved in a sketchbook from 1904/05, referring to the music of this first quartet: they range from “rejection, defiance” and “desperation” to “enthusiastic strength to fight, development of fantasy, energy” to “quiet happiness and the return of peace and harmony.” Schönberg made it very clear in later years that although he had laid down such a “program,” it was however of a completely private nature and belonged to the genesis of the work, and not to its aesthetic substance. Instead, he always pointed out the constructive achievement of this generously dimensioned work, imprinted with wide-spanning melodies as well as with differentiated rhythms and counterpoint.

Although all the details of this personal “program” were not implemented, the emotions depicted seem to correspond to passages in the music. In the final bars of the work, which lasts over 40 minutes in total, the main theme presented in an entirely masterful tone at the beginning arrives as an apotheosis in “peace and harmony.” The audio example begins at the entry by Rudolf Kolisch, leader of the ensemble that was named after him. The ensemble made a complete phonograph recording of Schönberg’s string quartets at the end of 1936/beginning of 1937. (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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Arnold Schönberg – Biography