Arnold Schoenberg

Works

Scores

• On IMSLP; listing by work type/instrument.
• Complete scores. (torrent)

Performance recordings

• On the website of 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, 1963. (in Italian)
  • Tratado de armonía, trans. Ramon Barce, 1979. (in Spanish)
  • Theory of Harmony, trans. Roy E. Carter, University of California Press, 1983. (in English). Based on the 3rd ed.
  • Harmonia, trans. Marden Maluf, 1999. (in Portuguese)

• Models for Beginners in Composition, Los Angeles, 1942; exp.ed., 1943. (in English)

• Style and Idea, ed. Dika Newlin, New York: Philosophical Library, 1950, 224 pp; London: Faber and Faber, 1975; University of California Press, 1975; 1984. (in English). Fifteen collected essays.

• 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. (in English)
  • Die formbildenden Tendenzen der Harmonie, trans. Erwin Stein, Mainz, 1954.
  • Funciones estructurales de la armonía, trans. Juan Luis Milan Amat, 1990. (in Spanish)

• Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, ed. Leonard Stein, London, 1963; New York: St. Martin's, 1969. Written 1936-50. Review.

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

• Stil und Gedanke. Aufsätze zur Musik. Gesammelte Schriften 1, ed. Ivan Vojtech, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1976; 1994, 514 pp. Writings from 1909-50. (in German) [1]

• Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form, ed. Severine Neff, trans. Charlotte M. Cross, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. (in English). Trans. of Zusammenhang, Kontrapunkt, Instrumentation, Formenlehre, written 1917-36.

• 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. (in English). Trans. of Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik, und Kunst seiner Darstellung, written 1923-36.

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

Correspondence

• Briefe, ed. Erwin Stein, Mainz, 1958.
• "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.
• Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence: a Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann and Olin Downes, ed. E. M. Ennulat, Metuchen, NJ, 1991. (in 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.

Literature

Monographs

• René Leibowitz, Schoenberg et son école, 1947. (in French)
  • Schoenberg and His School: The Contemporary Stage of the Language of Music, New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. (in English)
• Josef Rufer, Das Werk Arnold Schönbergs, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1959.
• Eberhard Freitag, Schönberg, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1973, 192 pp. [2]
• 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. (in English) Review, [3].
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schönberg: Leben, Werk, Umwelt, Zürich, 1974; Munich: Piper/Schott, 1989.
• Walter Frisch, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908, University of California Press, 1993. (in English)
• Thomas Harrison, 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance, University of California Press, 1996. (in English)
• Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey (eds.), Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture, University of California Press, 1997. (in 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. (in English) [4]
• Manuel Gervink, Arnold Schönberg und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber 2000.
• Alexander L. Ringer, Arnold Schönberg: Das Leben im Werk, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002.
• 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.
• James K. Wright, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. (in English)
• Malcolm MacDonald, Schoenberg, Oxford University Press, 2008. (in English) [5]
• Sabine Feisst, Schoenberg's New World: The American Years, Oxford University Press, 2011. (in English)

Films

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

Links

• Arnold Schönberg Center