Arnold Schönberg
Complete Piano Works
This volume brings together Schönberg’s complete works for piano solo, and thereby presents a wide span from the free atonal pieces of op. 11 to the aphoristic op. 19, the fascinating tone-row experiments of op. 23 to the dodecaphonically conceived works op. 25, 33a & 33b. Additionally, in the appendix, three pieces from 1894 by the twenty-year-old composer provide an astonishing insight into the late-romantic roots of the modern Schönberg. His compositional development can be easily traced in this edition, which incorporates all kinds of milestones of classical modernism alongside thrilling, trailblazing music. Anyone wanting to engage with Schönberg’s piano works should not miss this compendium!
About the Composer
Arnold Schönberg
The most important composer of the first half of the twentieth century, who with the transition to atonality and twelve-tone technique influenced musical history like no other.
1874 Born on 13 September in Vienna. Largely self-taught except for lessons with Alexander Zemlinsky.
1890–94 Worked as a bank clerk.
1899 String Sextet “Transfigured Night” op. 4 as first mature original piece.
1900–11 “Gurrelieder”.
1901–03 Conductor in Berlin at Ernst von Wolzogen’s “Überbrettl”.
1903 Symphonic poem “Pelleas and Melisande” op. 6. After returning to Vienna, he taught (pupils included Anton Webern and Alban Berg, with whom he formed the Vienna School).
1906 Chamber Symphony op. 9 with quartal harmony.
1908/09 Shift away from tonality: String Quartet op. 10, Three Piano Pieces op. 11, Five Orchestra Pieces op. 16, monodrama “Erwartung” (Expectations) op. 17 (composed 1909, performed 1924), “Die glückliche Hand” (The Hand of Fate) op. 18.
from 1911 Second sojourn in Berlin. “Theory of Harmony”.
1912 Melodrama cycle “Pierrot lunaire” op. 21 was a great international success.
1918 Founding of the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna.
Ca. 1920 After a creative crisis, he found his way to twelve-tone technique (Suite for Piano op. 25, 1921–23).
1925 Appointed to a professorship at the Prussian Academy of Arts Berlin.
1930 Period-piece opera “Von heute auf morgen” (From Today to Tomorrow) op. 32.
1930–32 Started work on the opera “Moses and Aaron”.
1933/36 Emigrated to the USA, professorship in Los Angeles.
1942 “Ode to Napoleon” op. 41, Piano Concerto op. 42.
1947 “A Survivor from Warsaw” op. 46.
1951 Died on 13 July in Los Angeles.
About the Authors
Ulrich Krämer (Editor)
Dr. Ulrich Krämer, born in 1961 in Bielefeld, is Head of the Research Centre at the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition in Berlin. He read musicology and German in Hamburg and Bloomington and wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Rudolf Stephan on Alban Berg as a pupil of Arnold Schönberg.
In addition to his editorial work, he has been a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” and at the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as “Visiting Scholar” at the Graduate Center at the City University New York. Alongside the volumes he has prepared for the Schönberg Complete Edition (including the score of the Gurre Lieder which was awarded the Deutsche Musikeditionspreis), his scholarly publications include editions of Alban Berg’s student compositions and Theodor W. Adorno’s compositions found in his estate, as well as essays and articles on Brahms, Berg, Schönberg, Ravel and Astor Piazzolla.
Norbert Müllemann (Editor)
Dr. Norbert Müllemann, born in 1976 in Cologne, studied musicology, German philology and philosophy at the University of Cologne whilst at the same time studying the piano at the Music Conservatory in Cologne.
In 2004 he began working at G. Henle Publishers as an intern. In 2005 he became a junior editor, whilst at the same time starting his doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He completed it in 2008 with a thesis entitled “Handschriften Frédéric Chopins bis 1830. Studien zur Authentizität, Datierung und Werkgenese”. Since 2008 Müllemann has been an editor at the publishing house, becoming editor-in-chief in 2017. He has edited numerous Urtext editions for the publisher with a particular focus on the works of Frédéric Chopin.
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