Wiener Konzerthaus

Listening to Love with Schönberg

Black and white photograph of Arnold Schönberg, sitting in an armchair with his arm resting on his knee, surrounded by furniture from around 1907
Arnold Schönberg, Wien, Liechtensteinstraße 68/70, 1907 © Arnold Schönberg Center
Black and white photograph of Arnold Schönberg, sitting in an armchair with his arm resting on his knee, surrounded by furniture from around 1907

No feeling is more closely associated with music than love. No composer is more often associated with rational and anti-emotional music than Arnold Schönberg.
For the first time, the Arnold Schönberg Center will utilize a curatorial approach for Schönberg’s scores, which are permeated with an abundance of emotions, explore contexts, and open up points of reference for a language of novel sounds about love in musical Modernism around 1900. Love songs, symphonic poems, and programmatic ensemble pieces are juxtaposed with private messages, literary and pictorial testimonies regarding the loss of love and the fulfillment of longed-for affection.

Therese Muxeneder, curator
about the exhibition

Ted Black, tenor
Sascha El Mouissi, piano
Arnold Schönberg: Die Beiden (1899); from 15 poems from "Das Buch der hängenden Gärten" by Stefan George op. 15

Admission free!
Registration requested

Venue

Arnold Schönberg Center

Zaunergasse 1-3
1030 Wien

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Current Dates

  • Tue. 28 May 2024, 6:30 p.m.