MUK.sinfonieorchester
Students of the Anton Bruckner Private University
Andreas Stoehr, conductor

Arnold Schönberg: Chamber Symphony op. 9b
"Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene" (Accompanying music to a light play scene) op. 34
Alison Knowles: Propostion

A "true turning point" of his composing was, for Schönberg, his Chamber Symphony, op. 9, finished in 1906: "I believed I had now found my own personal style of composing and that all problems […] had been solved." From today’s perspective, it is hard to imagine the wild excitement of the Viennese concert audience 111 years ago: at the legendary scandal
concert at the Musikverein in 1913, "the friends of music [...] erupted in laughter and loud expressions of opinion." At the celebratory concert to mark the Schönberg anniversary year in the Vienna City Hall, numerous young musicians from the MUK in Vienna and the Bruckner University Linz will interpret this work in the large orchestral version, together with "Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene", completed in 1930.
It wouldn’t be Wien Modern if there weren’t at least one younger piece on the line-up, which has already become a classic in its own right: Alison Knowles, companion of John Cage, a student of Schönberg, and pioneer of Fluxus, limited the score of her sensational "Proposition" from 1962 to three words: "Make a salad".

Admission free | Counting tickets required