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• Drei Klavierstücke

  Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (or Three Piano Pieces) is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, written in 1909. They represent an early example of ‘atonality’ in the composer’s work. The Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 of 1909 form an important milestone in the...

• Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke

  Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 (or Six Little Piano Pieces) is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, published in 1913. ( Listen to this work.) It is a collection of 6 pieces, each aphoristically short, and unique in character. This kind of writing...

• A Survivor from Warsaw

  A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 is a work for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg in 1947. The initial inspiration for the work was a suggestion from the Russian émigrée dancer Corinne Chochem for a work to pay tribute to the Jewish victims of the...

• Chamber symphony no. 2

  Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E-flat minor and G major, Opus 38, by Arnold Schoenberg was begun in 1906 and completed in 1939. The work is scored for strings, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and 2 trumpets, and is divided into two movements, the first marked Adagio and the second...

• Violin Concerto

  The Violin Concerto (Op. 36) by Arnold Schoenberg dates from Schoenberg's time in the United States of America, where he had moved in 1933 to escape the Nazis. The piece was written in 1936, the same year as the String Quartet No. 4. At the time of its completion, Schoenberg was living in Brentwood...

• The Book of the Hanging Gardens

  Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens) is a fifteen-part song cycle composed by Arnold Schoenberg between 1908 and 1909, setting poems of Stefan George. George’s poems, also under the same title, track the failed love affair of two adolescent youths in a garden, ending with...