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Three Piano Pieces op. 11
1. Mäßig
7 difficult
2. Sehr Langsam
6 medium
3. Bewegt
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Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19
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4 medium
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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.

1874Born on 13 September in Vienna. Largely self-taught except for lessons with Alexander Zemlinsky.
1890–94Worked as a bank clerk.
1899String Sextet “Transfigured Night” op. 4 as first mature original piece.
1900–11“Gurrelieder”.
1901–03Conductor in Berlin at Ernst von Wolzogen’s “Überbrettl”.
1903Symphonic 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).
1906Chamber Symphony op. 9 with quartal harmony.
1908/09Shift 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 1911Second sojourn in Berlin. “Theory of Harmony”.
1912Melodrama cycle “Pierrot lunaire” op. 21 was a great international success.
1918Founding of the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna.
Ca. 1920After a creative crisis, he found his way to twelve-tone technique (Suite for Piano op. 25, 1921–23).
1925Appointed to a professorship at the Prussian Academy of Arts Berlin.
1930Period-piece opera “Von heute auf morgen” (From Today to Tomorrow) op. 32.
1930–32Started work on the opera “Moses and Aaron”.
1933/36Emigrated to the USA, professorship in Los Angeles.
1942“Ode to Napoleon” op. 41, Piano Concerto op. 42.
1947“A Survivor from Warsaw” op. 46.
1951Died on 13 July in Los Angeles.

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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 and Head of Publishing in 2024. He has edited numerous Urtext editions for the publisher with a particular focus on the works of Frédéric Chopin.

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