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Title: Arnold Schoenberg Collection of Correspondence, Photographs, and Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1899-1951
Collection number: 78
Origination: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Extent: 1 boxes (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Shelf location: Held at SRLF; use MC4834862 for paging purposes.
Language:
English.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Performing Arts Special Collections.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian for Performing Arts Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the Performing Arts Special Collections as the
owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder(s), which must
also be obtained.
[Identification of item], Arnold Schoenberg Collection of Correspondence, Photographs, and Papers, 78,
Performing Arts Special Collections,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Music--Faculty--Archival resources.
Composers--Archival resources.
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in
Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old;
composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he
later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his
most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton
Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata
Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically
at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal
compositions, and in his
Opus 25 Piano Suite, he created
the first composition based on a row or series of 12 tones;
his opera
Moses und Aron (begun in 1930) was based on this
technique; in 1925 he was invited to direct the master
class in musical composition at the Prussian Academy of
Arts in Berlin; after the rise of the Nazis, he was
dismissed from his post in 1933, and emigrated to the United States via Paris; took a position at the Malkin Conservatory
in Boston in November 1933, and then moved to California the following year; after a year as a lecturer at the University
of Southern California (1935-36) he taught composition as UCLA from 1936 until his retirement in 1944; he became a U.S. citizen
in 1944; continued to create compositions illustrating his mastery of the 12-tone method; died on July 13, 1951 in LA.
Collection consists of materials relating mostly to
Schoenberg's career at UCLA, including his University of
California biography form, and letters to and from
Schoenberg, his friends and UCLA colleagues, and his
family. Includes miscellaneous photographs, some inscribed,
of Schoenberg and others, and clippings relating to his
music and career. Also contains a photocopy of the
manuscript of
Mailied (1899), the original of which is
housed in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections.