Arnold Schoenberg

Born	September 13, 1874(1874-09-13) Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died	July 13, 1951(1951-07-13) (aged 76) Los Angeles, United States
Web	UbuWeb Sound, Aaaaarg, Wikipedia

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (1874–1951) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

Works

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Scores

• Sämtliche Werke, eds. Josef Rufer and Rudolf Stephan, Mainz: Schott, 1966-2006.

• On IMSLP; listing by work type/instrument.

Recordings (online)

• At the Arnold Schönberg Center.
• On IMSLP.
• On PianoSociety.com
• Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21, Remix Ensemble.
• Chamber Symphony in an arrangement by Anton Webern, on UbuWeb.

Writings

Books

• Harmonielehre, Vienna: Universal Edition, 1911; 3rd ed., 1922.
  • Manuale di armonia, trans. Giacomo Manzoni, Milan: il Saggiatore, 1963, IA, ARG. (Italian)
  • Tratado de armonía, trans. & intro. Ramon Barce, Madrid: Real Musical, 1979; 1990. (Spanish)
  • Theory of Harmony, trans. Roy E. Carter, University of California Press, 1983. Based on the 3rd ed. (English)
  • Harmonia, trans. Marden Maluf, 1999. (Portuguese)

• Models for Beginners in Composition, Los Angeles, 1942; exp.ed., 1943. (English)
  • Modelli per principianti di composizione. Compendio e glossario, Curci, 1943. (Italian)

• Style and Idea, ed. & trans. Dika Newlin, New York: Philosophical Library, 1950, 224 pp; London: Faber and Faber, 1975; University of California Press, 1975; 60th anniv. ed., 2010, 570 pp. Fifteen collected essays. (English)
  • El estilo y la idea, trans. Juan J. Esteve, Taurus, 1963, 284 pp. (Spanish)
  • Styl a idea, trans. & ed. Ivan Vojtěch, Prague: Arbor vitae, 2004, 402 pp. [1] (Czech)

• Structural Functions of Harmony, ed. Leonard Stein, Williams and Norgate, 1954; 2nd ed., rev., Ernest Benn, 1969; New York: Norton, 1969; London: Faber and Faber, 1983, 203 pp, PDF. (English)
  • Die formbildenden Tendenzen der Harmonie, trans. Erwin Stein, Mainz, 1954.
  • Funzioni strutturali dell'armonia, Il Saggiatore, 1979, 267 pp. (Italian)
  • Funciones estructurales de la armonía, trans. Juan Luis Milan Amat, 1990. (Spanish)

• Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, ed. Leonard Stein, London, 1963; New York: St. Martin's, 1969. Written 1936-1950. Review.
  • Ejercicios preliminares de contrapunto, Idea Books, 2002. (Spanish)

• Fundamentals of Musical Composition, eds. Gerald Strang and Leonard Stein, London: Faber and Faber, 1967. (English)
  • Elementi di composizione musicale, trans. Giacomo Manzoni, 1969. (Italian)
  • Grundlagen der musikalischen Komposition, trans. Rudolf Kolisch, ed. Rudi Stephan, Vienna, 1979.
  • Fundamentos de la composición musical, trans. A. Santos, 1989. (Spanish)
  • Fundamentos da composição musical, trans. Eduardo Seincman, 1991. (Portuguese)

• Stil und Gedanke. Aufsätze zur Musik. Gesammelte Schriften 1, ed. Ivan Vojtech, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1976; 1994, 514 pp. Writings 1909-1950. WP.

• Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form, ed. Severine Neff, trans. Charlotte M. Cross, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Trans. of Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre, written 1917-1936. (English)

• The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation, eds. & trans. Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff, New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Trans. of Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik, und Kunst seiner Darstellung, written 1923-1936. (English)

• A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life, ed. Joseph Auner, Yale University Press, 2003, 428 pp. Collection of essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings. (English)

• More writings at the Arnold Schönberg Center.

Correspondence

• Briefe, ed. Erwin Stein, Mainz, 1958.
  • Letters, trans. Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, London: Faber and Faber, 1964. (English)
• "Der Briefwechsel zwischen Arnold Schönberg und dem Verlag C. F. Peters", ed. Eberhardt Klemm, Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 15 (1971), pp 5-66.
• Arnold Schönberg – Wassily Kandinsky: Briefe, Bilder und Dokumente einer außergewöhnlichen Begegnung, ed. J. Hahl-Koch, Salzburg, 1980.
• The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters, eds. Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris, Palgrave Macmillan, 1987, 525 pp. (English)
• Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence: a Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann and Olin Downes, ed. Egbert M. Ennulat, Metuchen, NJ, 1991, 340 pp. (English)
• Briefwechsel der Wiener Schule, Bd. 1: Alexander Zemlinsky – Briefwechsel mit Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg und Franz Schreker, ed. Horst Weber, Darmstadt, 1995.
• Briefwechsel der Wiener Schule, Bd. 3: Briefwechsel Arnold Schönberg – Alban Berg, ed. Thomas Ertelt, 2 vols., Mainz, 2006.
• Schoenberg's Early Correspondence, ed. & trans. Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst, Oxford University Press, 2016, 448 pp. Publisher. (English)

Literature

Monographs

• René Leibowitz, Schoenberg et son école, 1947. (French)
  • Schoenberg and His School: The Contemporary Stage of the Language of Music, New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. (English)
• Josef Rufer, Das Werk Arnold Schönbergs, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1959.
• Jan Meyerowitz, Arnold Schönberg, Berlin: Colloquium, 1967, 92 pp. (German)
• Willi Reich, Arnold Schönberg oder Der konservative Revolutionär, Vienna, Frankfurt and Zürich: Molden, 1968, 328 pp; dtv, 1982.
  • Arnold Schoenberg: A Critical Biography, trans. Leo Black, New York: Prager, 1971. (English)
• B. Boretz, E.T. Cone (eds.), Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, Princeton University Press, 1968; Norton, 1972. (English)
• Jan Maegaard, Studien zur Entwicklung des dodekaphonen Satzes bei Arnold Schönberg, Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, 1972.
• Eberhard Freitag, Schönberg, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1973, 192 pp. [2]
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schönberg: Leben, Werk, Umwelt, Zürich, 1974; Munich: Piper/Schott, 1989.
• Charles Rosen, Arnold Schoenberg, New York: Viking, 1975, OL; Princeton University Press, 1981; University of Chicago Press, 1996. (English)
• Carl Dahlhaus, Schönberg und andere: gesammelte Aufsätze zur Neuen Musik, Mainz, 1978.
  • Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays, trans. Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 316 pp. Review. Publisher. (English)
• Alexander L. Ringer, Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Jew, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
• Jonathan Dunsby, Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 108 pp, OL. With a translation of libretto by Andrew Porter. (English)
• Walter Frisch, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908, University of California Press, 1993. (English)
• Alban Berg, Musikalische Schriften und Dichungen, Band 1. Analysen musikalischer Werke von Arnold Schönberg, eds. Rudolf Stephan and Regina Busch, Vienna, 1994, 130 pp. (German)
• Thomas Harrison, 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance, University of California Press, 1996. (English)
• Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey (eds.), Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture, University of California Press, 1997. (English)
• Nuria Schönberg-Nono, Arnold Schönberg 1874–1951. Lebensgeschichte in Begegnungen, Klagenfurt: Ritter, 1998.
• Peter Gradenwitz, Arnold Schönberg und seine Meisterschüler, Vienna: Zsolnay, 1998.
• Bryan R. Simms, The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923, Oxford University Press, 2000, 276 pp. (English)
• Manuel Gervink, Arnold Schönberg und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber, 2000.
• Alexander L. Ringer, Arnold Schönberg: Das Leben im Werk, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002.
• Allen Shawn, Arnold Schoenberg's Journey, Harvard University Press, 2002, OL. Publisher. (English)
• Martin Eybl, Die Befreiung des Augenblicks: Schönbergs Skandalkonzerte von 1907 und 1908. Eine Dokumentation, Vienna: Böhlau, 2004.
• Hartmut Krones, Arnold Schönberg: Werk und Leben, Vienna: Steinbauer, 2005.
• Norton Dudeque, Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Ashgate, 2005, 274 pp. (English)
• James K. Wright, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. (English)
• Malcolm MacDonald, Schoenberg, Oxford University Press, 2008. (English)
• Sabine Feisst, Schoenberg's New World: The American Years, Oxford University Press, 2011, 379 pp, ARG. (English)
• Joy H. Calico, Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe, University of California Press, 2014, 272 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Ute Holl, Der Moses-Komplex: Politik der Töne, Politik der Bilder, Zurich: diaphanes, 2014, 368 pp. Publisher. (German)
  • The Moses Complex: Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet, trans. Michael Turnbull, Zurich: diaphanes, 2017, 342 pp. Publisher. (English)
• Mark Berry, Arnold Schoenberg, Reaktion Books (Critical Lives), 2019, PDF. (English)
• Richard Cavell, Speechsong: The Gould / Schoenberg Dialogues, Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2020. [3] (English)

Papers and articles

• At the Arnold Schönberg Center.

Films

• My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg, dir. Larry Weinstein, 83 min, 1992. TV film. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Links

• Arnold Schönberg Center
• Arnold Schoenberg archive is destroyed in LA fires, 2025