Arnold Schönberg in Vienna before 1900

This documentary focuses on Schönberg's childhood and youth in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, his school years and early friendships with other artists, and his stylistic development up to his breakthrough into other artistic spheres, highlighting in particular his earliest musical autographs, personal memorabilia and richly anecdotal stories from contemporaries about the man who would later become a conservative revolutionary.
Music:
Streichquartett D-Dur (1897)
»Alliance« Walzer (after 1882)
Sechs Stücke für Klavier, vierhändig, Nr. 6 (1896)
Zehn Walzer für Streichorchester, Nr. 6 (1897)
Zehn Walzer für Streichorchester, Nr. 5 (1897)
Drei Klavierstücke, Nr. 2 (1894)
Streichquartett D-Dur (1897)
Presto für Streichquartett (1895)
Ei du Lütte für Gemischten Chor (1896)
Verklärte Nacht op. 4 (1899/1943)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Schoenberg
• Schönberg
• Vienna
• Music
• History

[erniesparks]

It would be nice to identify some of the unfamiliar music played as background. I presume it is Schoenberg music of the 1990s. Most of us are unfamiliar with the pre-opus-number work.

[ascvideo]

see "About this video"

[sonobl]

Was this recording of Sechs Stücke für Klavier nr. 6 taken from the album Piano Works of New Viennese School by Yuji Takahashi?

[CaptainBluebear08]

@Stravinsky91

Yes.

[Stravinsky91]

was it verklare ancht in the end? :)

[LuciferKermit]

This is fantastic, thank you so much for posting this!

[mrjfin]

what does means a word anecdotal?

[musicfan49]

Thanks' so much. I've been collecting Schoenberg vinyl recordings for years. For the past year, I've been reading every English biography and music theory book I can get a hold of .....and afford....youch...some of my smallest volumes are setting me back $90-$110!!! Ah, to be an academic...I'd just "write it off".

What I really LOVE about this video the most is that IT IS IN ENGLISH. I've got to learn German in 2008. Things would be far easier.

Hayseed American, Tom B.

[erniesparks]

Many thanks!

[erniesparks]

This is really very good and a proper place to start the Schoenberg story. We get to see those friends with whom he first hooked up, like the truly significant Von Zemlinsky, who was the only real general music tutor Schoenberg ever had (he soon emerged as the "the teacher" himself). I especially appreciate the early photographs of Schoenberg (we are too much accustomed to the aging man in photographs). He stares out at a world, and we wonder what he thinks.