Expectation (Schönberg)
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| Title: | Expectation |
| Shape: | Monodrama in one act |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Libretto : | Marie Pappenheim |
| Premiere: | June 6, 1924 |
| Place of premiere: | Prague |
| Playing time: | about 30 minutes |
| Place and time of the action: | a forest, night |
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Expectation (op. 17) is a musical monodrama in one act by Arnold Schönberg . It is his first work that he composed for the stage. Marie Pappenheim wrote the libretto . Although Schönberg had already completed his composition on September 12, 1909, it was first performed around 15 years later, on June 6, 1924, at the New German Theater in Prague as part of the music festival of the International Society for New Music under the direction of Alexander von Zemlinsky instead.
orchestra
Piccolo, three flutes, three oboes, English horn (also 4th oboe), clarinet in D, clarinet in B, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in B, three bassoons, double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, timpani , Percussion (cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, tam-tam, ratchets, triangle), harp, celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone, strings
action
It's night. The picture shows three paths in the moonlight, surrounded by tall, dense trees. We see a young woman wandering desperately through the forest in search of her lover. In doing so, she experiences all emotional sensations; Fear and hope correspond with each other in quick succession. When she hits a corpse with her foot, she is horrified to discover that it is her lover's.
music
The work is a representative of musical expressionism . The tonality has been dissolved, the traditional harmony suspended. In accordance with the subjective-psychological text, Schönberg composes a free-flowing music full of emotional extremes , which has not yet been regulated by a twelve-tone technique . The large orchestra is a relic of late romanticism.
Sound carrier
- Arnold Schönberg: Expectation (and Chamber Symphony No. 1 ), Simon Rattle , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , EMI 5 55212
- Arnold Schönberg: Expectation (and Pelleas and Melisande) Robert Craft , Anja Silja , soprano, Philharmonia Orchestra , Naxos 8.557527
Performances
- 2009: Production by Thomas Bischoff at the Stuttgart State Opera , woman: Elena Nebera
- March 7, 2010: Production by Matthew Jocelyn at the Hamburg State Opera , conductor: Simone Young , wife: Deborah Polaski
- March 2011: Kölner Philharmonie , WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne , conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste , wife: Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet
- June 2015: Philharmonie im Gasteig , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Daniel Harding , wife: Evelyn Herlitzius
literature
- Siegfried Mauser : The Expressionist Music Theater of the Vienna School: stilist. u. developmental Under to Arnold Schönberg's "Expectation" op. 17, "The happy hand" op. 18 a. Alban Berg's “Wozzeck” op. 7. Bosse, Regensburg 1982, ISBN 3-7649-2264-8
Web links
- Expectation, Op.17 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Action of expectation (Schönberg) at Opera-Guide target page due to URL change currently not available
- Libretto and introduction by Therese Muxeneder