From Today till Tomorrow op. 32

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Title	From Today till Tomorrow op. 32
Playing time	00:17:32
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND]
Contributors	Schönberg, Arnold [Dirigent] [GND] Funkstunde Berlin [Produzent] Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft [Produzent]
Place	Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper [Ortsbezug]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 30er Jahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00204_b02_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

Stage photo premiere Von heute auf morgen op. 32. Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

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Immediately after the premiere of his opera “From Today till Tomorrow” op. 32 in Frankfurt am Main on February 1, 1930, Arnold Schönberg was given the opportunity to conduct the work in a radio broadcast for the Berlin Funk-Stunde. The composer expected an audience of at least 5,000 people. The newspaper Vogtland-Anzeiger reported on March 9, 1930: “The Berlin Funkstunde has become happy to try out new things; that was evinced by the performance (which Schönberg himself had prepared in many self-sacrificing rehearsals) and by the space in which it was executed. The old studio has become too small for opera broadcasts, so a nearby convention hall, replete with Romantic stucco work, was rented and a few makeshift curtains were hung to correct the acoustics. Schönberg sat at the likewise makeshift conductor’s desk and mastered the difficult score with extreme calm. […] It turns out […] that this opera in particular is outstandingly suitable for a radio broadcast.” (Vogtland-Anzeiger, March 9, 1930) As little as two weeks later, Schönberg received a delivery with “phonograph recordings which were made during the first broadcast of the opera From Today till Tomorrow. Please note that these recordings can only be played properly using electric transmission and dynamic loudspeakers. They are not designed like usual gramophone recordings playable on a conventional apparatus available in shops. Even so, they yield a very good result when played on a good gramophone.” (Funk-Stunde Aktiengesellschaft, December 12, 1930). (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