“Die glückliche Hand” in newspaper reviews
“I want: The utmost unreality!” Arnold Schönberg’s drama with music in one act “Die glückliche Hand” (1910–13) – a model of musical expressionism – was premiered in Vienna’s Volksoper as many as eleven years after its completion.
Chess with Schönberg
Around 1920, Arnold Schönberg tried out a game for four armed forces with his coalition or alliance chess, inspired by the World War I military arsenal. We have summarized the basic rules and game variants, the figures’ moves and their distribution, and also prepared 3D scans of the figures. Try it yourself!
From the Archive – New acquisition
“Please don’t advertise! I have no wish for publicity! I do not wish to be one of those people who stop at nothing to promote themselves. You must understand this!” Sending an insistent plea to concert agent Emil Gutmann at the end of September 1912, Schönberg urgently requested that the final rehearsal of his “Pierrot lunaire” be attended solely by invited guests, and not open to music critics.