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String Quartet no. 2 op. 10

About the Composer

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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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About the Authors

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Jan Philip Schulze (Piano reduction)

Prof. Jan Philip Schulze received his piano education at the Musikhochschule in Munich and at the Tschaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He began his varied international career by winning awards at competitions in Italy, Spain and South Africa.

As a lied accompanist he has regularly given concerts with Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, Rachel Harnisch, Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann and Violeta Urmana; performing in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the London Wigmore Hall, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, in Tokyo, at La Scala in Milan, as well as at the festivals in Lucerne, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich and Schwarzenberg. Schulze is also interested in contemporary music, and has, for example recorded all of Hans Werner Henze’s Works for Piano, as well as given premières of concertos by Christoph Staude (with the Munich Philharmonic), Dror Feiler (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Johannes Schöllhorn (with the WDR Symphony Orchestra). Since 2004, Jan Philip Schulze has been Professor for “Liedgestaltung” at the Music Conservatory in Hannover.

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