List of compositions by Arnold Schönberg

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The musical work of Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) can be roughly divided into three stylistic phases (see also: Arnold Schönberg # work and effect ):

  • "Late romantic" or " post-romantic " works (culminating in the Gurre songs [1900–11] on words by Jens Peter Jacobsen , German by Robert Franz Arnold)
  • Works whose harmony turns towards a “free atonality ” (from around 1908; the second string quartet [1907/08] can be considered a key work here , in the finale of which a soprano voice symbolically-programmatically quotes the poem Entrückung [1907] by Stefan George : "I feel air from another planet ..." )
  • Works that are based on the “method of composing with twelve tones that are only related to one another” (the so-called twelve - tone technique , from 1921; first tried in the Five Piano Pieces [op. 23, 1920–23] and the Suite for Piano [op. 25; 1921-23]).

The following list gives an overview of the compositions, sorted by line-up.

Operas

Vocal compositions

For solo voice and piano

1.  In bright dreams I have often looked at you ... (1893; Alfred Gold) - 2.  Over there the sun is parting ... (Nikolaus Lenau, Schilflied ) - 3.  Girls' song ("Sang a beggar couple at the Schenkentor ..."; Paul Heyse) - 4.  That yesterday a wasp stung your finger ... (anonymous) - 5.  Cheers, beautiful young rose ... (anonymous) - 6.  Why did you wake up ... (anonymous) - 7.  The broken mug ... (Martin Greif)
1.  A bird sat in the lilac bush ... (Robert Reinick) - 2. That the May period was  over ... (Ada Christen) - 3.  Can I bring my light to you ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 4.  My treasure is like a snail ... ( Ludwig Pfau) - 5.  God greet you Marie! ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 6.  The plant that hovers over the abyss ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 7.  I am lonely and alone ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 8.  Only it hurts me so bitterly ... (Oscar von Redwitz) - 9.  You little one are so sweet and sweet ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 10.  My heart, that's a deep shaft ... (anonymous) - 11.  You turn your back on me ... (Ludwig Pfau) - 12.  I green as the willow turns green ... (Wilhelm Wackernagel) - 13.  Doubter (Ludwig Pfau) - 14.  Longing (Joseph Christian von Zedlitz) - 15.  Forget-me-not (Ludwig Pfau) - 16.  Lonely I am and alone (Ludwig Pfau)
1.  Song of the Reaper (Ludwig Pfau) - 2.  Spring for Girls (1897; Richard Dehmel) - 3.  Not at all! (Richard Dehmel) - 4.  Greetings to the distance (1900; Hermann Lingg) for baritone - 5.  Ecloge (anonymous) - 6.  Waldesnacht (Paul Heyse) - 7.  Man's fear (Richard Dehmel) - 8.  The two (1899; Hugo von Hofmannsthal) - 9.  In bright dreams (Alfred Gold) - 10.  Schilflied (Nikolaus Lenau) - 11.  My heart is a deep shaft (anonymous) - 12.  Mailied (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
  • Mannesbangen (shortly after 1897 ?; fragment) for voice and piano. Text: Richard Dehmel (1863–1920). - Factory introduction [11]
  • Two songs (op. 1; 1898) for a baritone voice and piano. Texts [12] : Karl von Levetzow (1871–1945). Duration: ~ 16 '. Dedication: "To my teacher and friend Alexander von Zemlinsky ". Premiere December 1, 1900 Vienna ( Bösendorfer Hall ; Eduard Gärtner [vocals],? [Piano]). - Work introduction by Iris Pfeiffer [13]
1.  Thank you ("You gave me great things ...") - 2.  Farewell ("From the ruins of a great beauty ...")
  • Four songs (op. 2; 1899 / ~ 1900) for a voice and piano. Texts [14] : Johannes Schlaf (1862–1941), Richard Dehmel (1863–1920). Duration: ~ 12 '. Dedication: "To my teacher and friend Alexander von Zemlinsky". WP (No. 1 & 2) February 11, 1904 Vienna (Ansorge-Verein; Walter Pieau [vocals]; Oskar C. Posa or Alexander von Zemlinsky [piano]). WP (No. 3) January 26, 1907 Vienna (Ehrbar-Saal; Arthur Preuss [vocals], Alexander von Zemlinsky [piano]). WP (No. 4) April 28, 1915 Vienna ( Konzerthaus , Schubert Hall; Emmy Heim [vocals], Eduard Steuermann piano). - Work introduction by Matthias Schmidt [15]
1.  Expectation ("From the sea-green pond ...", 1899; Richard Dehmel) - 2.  Give me your golden comb (1899; Richard Dehmel, Jesus is begging ) - 3.  Elevation ("Just give me your hand ...", 1899; Richard Dehmel) - 4th  forest sun ("Into the brown, rushing nights ...", ~ 1900; Johannes Schlaf)
1.  The frugal lover ("My girlfriend has a black cat ..."; Hugo Salus) - 2.  Simple- minded song ("King went for a walk ..."; Hugo Salus) - 3.  The nightwalker ("Drummer, let your calfskin sound ... "; Gustav Falke; with small flute , trumpet , snare drum and piano - see under vocal compositions for solo voice and 3–7 instruments ) - 4.  Each his own (“ Ebenes Paradefeld ... ”; Colly) - 5.  Reminder (“ Mädel sei no vain thing ... "; Gustav Hochstetter) - 6th  Gigerlette (" Miss Gigerlette invited me to tea ... "; Otto Julius Bierbaum) - 7th  Galathea (" Oh, how am I burning with desire ... "; Frank Wedekind) - 8.  Slow waltz ("Since I saw so many women ..."; Emanuel Schikaneder, from the mirror of Arcadia )
1.  How Georg von Frundsberg sang about himself ("My diligence and effort ..."; 1903; from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) - 2.  The excited ("What deeply moved life stories ..."; 1903; Gottfried Keller) - 3.  Warning (" My dog, you, just grumbled ... "; 1899/1903; Richard Dehmel) - 4th  wedding song (" So full and rich ... "; ~ 1901; Jens Peter Jacobsen, German by Robert Franz Arnold) - 5th  practiced heart ("Do not lose my simple heart ..."; 1903; Gottfried Keller) - 6.  Freihold ("So many ravens fly up at night ..."; 1900/03; Hermann Lingg)
  • Your look ("Your look made me comfortable ..."; 1903). Song for a voice and piano. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
  • Commemoration ("His picture is still there ..."; undated; authorship uncertain) for a voice and piano. Text [19] : handed down anonymously. Duration: ~ 2½ '. - Factory introduction [20]
  • Eight songs (op. 6; 1903–05) for voice and piano. Texts: Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Julius Hart (1859–1930), Hermann Conradi (1862–1890), Richard Dehmel (1863–1920), John Henry Mackay (1864–1933) , Paul Remer (1867–1943), Kurt Aram (= Hans Fischer, 1869–1934). Duration: ~ 20 '. UA (No. 1, 3, 5–8) January 26, 1907 Vienna (Ehrbar-Saal; Theo [Theodora] Drill-Oridge, Arthur Preuss [vocals], Alexander von Zemlinsky [piano]). WP (No. 4) April 28, 1915 Vienna ( Konzerthaus , Schubert Hall; Emmy Heim [1885–1954] [vocals], Eduard Steuermann [piano])
1.  Dream life ("It wraps itself around my neck ..."; 1903; Julius Hart) - 2.  Everything ("Let's wait for the night ..."; 1905; Richard Dehmel) - 3.  Girls' song ("Oh, if it is now the Mother knows ... "; 1905; Paul Remer) - 4.  Leaving (" At dawn I walked away ... "; 1903; Hermann Conradi) - 5.  Ghazel (" I hold you in my arms ... "; 1904; Gottfried Keller) - 6.  At the wayside (“A thousand people pass by…”; 1905; John Henry Mackay) - 7.  Lure (“Come on, come with me…”; 1905; Kurt Aram) - 8.  The wanderer (“A wanderer goes through the night ... "; 1905; Friedrich Nietzsche)
  • Two ballads (op. 12; 1907) for voice and piano. Texts (from: Neuer deutscher Balladenschatz , Berlin 1906): Heinrich Ammann (1864–1950), Victor Klemperer (1881–1960). Duration: ~ 11 '. Premiere (No. 1) October 23, 1920 Vienna (Konzerthaus, Schubert-Saal; Olga Bauer-Pilecka [1887–1941] [alt], Ernst Bachrich [~ 1892 / 93–1942] [piano]). WP (No. 2): unknown
1.  Jane Gray ("They led him through the gray courtyard ..."; Heinrich Ammann) - 2.  The lost heap ("Drink up, you drink for the last time ..."; Victor Klemperer)
  • Two songs (op. 14; 1907/08) for voice and piano. Texts: Stefan George , Karl Henckell . Duration: ~ 5 '. Premiere January 20, 1921 Vienna (Konzerthaus, Schubert Hall; Erika Wagner [vocals], Ernst Bachrich [piano])
1.  I must not give thanks ... (1907; Stefan George, verses 10 and 11 of the poem Waller im Schnee from The Year of the Soul [1897]) - 2.  In these winter days (1908; Karl Henckell)
1.  Under the protection of dense leafy grounds - 2.  Grove in this paradise - 3.  As a newcomer, I stepped into your enclosure - 4.  Since my lips are motionless and burn - 5.  Tell me which path I am on - 6.  Everyone works I'm still dead - 7.  Fear and hope alternately oppress myself - 8.  If I don't touch your body today - 9.  Happiness is strict and brittle to us - 10.  I look at the beautiful bed while waiting - 11.  As we behind the flowered gates - 12.  When you are in deep mats during holy rest - 13.  You lean against a silver willow on the bank - 14.  Don't always speak - 15.  We populated the dusky arbors
  • Three songs (op. 48; 1933) for low voice and piano. Texts [23] : Jakob Haringer . Duration: ~ 6 '. Premiere May 16, 1950 Los Angeles (Student Union; Peter Page [baritone], Leonard Stein [1916–2004] [piano]). - Factory introduction [24]
1.  Summer tired ("If you think it's eternal night ...") - 2.  Dead ("Is everything one ...") - 3. Girls' song  ("The sun shines so beautifully ...")
  • Two playmates went well ... (op. 49 No. 1; 1948). Folksong setting for voice and piano
    • Version for mixed choir a cappella (1948): see under Vocal compositions for several voices with or without instrumental accompaniment

For solo voice and 3–7 instruments

  • It's a whisper through the night ... (E minor, undated) for tenor and string quartet. Text: transmitted anonymously
  • Der Nachtwandler ("Drummer, let your calfskin sound ..."; 1901) for voice, small flute , trumpet , snare drum and piano. Text: Gustav Falke (1853–1916) (= No. 3 from the Brettl-Lieder , see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and piano ). WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [25]
  • Second quartet (F sharp minor) (op. 10; 1907/08) for 2 violins, viola, cello and a soprano part (in the 3rd and 4th movements). Texts: Stefan George (from The Seventh Ring [1907]). Duration: ~ 30 '. Dedication: “My wife” (Mathilde Zemlinsky [1877–1923]). Premiere December 21, 1908 Vienna ( Bösendorfer Hall ; Marie Gutheil-Schoder [soprano], Rosé Quartet )
    • Versions for string orchestra and soprano part (1919/29): see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and orchestra
1.  Moderate - 2.  Very quickly - 3.  Litany. Slowly ("Deep is the grief that darkens me ...", from the chapter dream darkness ) - 4th  rapture. Very slowly ("I feel air from another planet ...", from the Maximin chapter )
1. Drunk on the  moon ("The wine that you drink with your eyes ...") - 2.  Colombine ("The pale flowers of the moonlight ...") - 3.  The dandy ("With a fantastic ray of light ...") - 4.  A pale laundress - 5.  Valse de Chopin ("Like a pale drop of blood ...") - 6.  Madonna ("Steig, o mother of all pain ...") - 7.  The sick moon ("You nocturnal fatally ill moon ...") - 8th  night ( Passacaglia) ("Finstre, black giant butterfly ...") - 9th  prayer to Pierrot ("Pierrot! My laugh ...") - 10th  robbery ("Red, princely rubies ...") - 11th  Red Mass ("At cruel supper ... ") - 12.  Gallows song (" The dry whore ... ") - 13.  Decapitation (" The moon, a blank Turkish sword ... ") - 14.  The crosses (" Holy crosses are the verses ... ") - 15.  Homesickness (" Lovely plaintive - a crystalline sigh ... ") - 16.  Meanness (" In the bare head of Cassander ... ") - 17.  Parody (" Knitting needles, bare and blinking ... ") - 18.  The moon spot (" A white spot of the bright moon ... ") - 19th  serenade (" With a grotesque giant bow ... ") - 20th  journey home (" Der Mondstrahl is the rudder ... ") - 21.  O old scent (" O old scent from fairytale times ... ")
  • Serenade (op. 24; 1920–23) for clarinet, bass clarinet , mandolin , guitar , violin, viola, violoncello and a deep male voice (in the 4th movement). Text [28] : Francesco Petrarca , German by Karl August Förster . Duration: ~ 33 '. Premiere (private) May 2, 1924 Vienna (with Norbert Schwarzmann). Premiere (public) July 2, 1924 Donaueschingen ( Music Days ; Conductor: Arnold Schönberg). - Work introduction by Camille Crittenden [29]
1st  March (1921) - 2nd  minuet. Trio (1921-23) - 3rd  variations. Subject (1920) - 4th  sonnet No. 217 by Petrarch ("Oh, could I ever recover the revenge on you ..."; 1922/23) - 5th  dance scene (1920-23) - 6th  song (without words) (1923) - 7th  final (1923)
  • Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (“'Tis done - but yesterday a King!”, Op. 41; 1942) for speaker, string quartet and piano. Text: Lord Byron . German version ( Ode to Napoleon ): Arnold Schönberg ("Gone! - Still yesterday Prince and great ...") [30] . Duration: 15 '. Premiere July 10, 1946 London (Goldsmith's Hall; Cuthbert Kelly [speaker]; Else Cross [piano], Aeolian Quartet ). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [31]
    • Version for speaker, string orchestra and piano: see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and orchestra

For solo voice and orchestra

1.  Nature ("Night flows into day and day into night ..."; 1903/04; Heinrich Hart) - 2.  The coat of arms shield ("Storms, tears and races, you winds of misfortune ..."; 1903/04; Flying sheet from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) - 3.  Longing ("My time is difficult, boring ..."; 1905; from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) - 4.  I was never, Mistress, tired ... (1904/05; Francesco Petrarca, German by Karl August Förster) - 5.  Full of that sweetness ... (1904/05; Francesco Petrarca, German by Karl August Förster) - 6.  When birds complain ... (1904/05; Francesco Petrarca, German by Karl August Förster)
1.  Seraphita ("Don't appear now, dream-lost face ..."; 1913; Ernest Dowson, German by Stefan George) - 2.  All who are looking for you (1914; Rainer Maria Rilke) - 3.  Make me the guardian of your vastness (1914 / 15; Rainer Maria Rilke) - 4th  anticipation ("I am surrounded by afar like a flag"; 1916; Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • Song of the wood pigeon from the Gurre songs . Arrangement for voice and chamber orchestra (1922). Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885; from En cactus springer ud [“A cactus blooms”, 1869/70]), German by Robert Franz Arnold (1872–1938). Premiere January 30, 1923 Copenhagen (Dansk Filharmonisk Selskab; Marya Freund [1876–1966] [Waldtaube], Breuning-Bache-Quartet, members of the Royal Chapel Christian Christiansen; conductor: Arnold Schönberg). - Introduction by Stefanie Rauch [32]
  • Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (“'Tis done - but yesterday a King!”, Op. 41; 1942/43). Version for speaker, string orchestra and piano. Text: Lord Byron . German version ( Ode to Napoleon ): Arnold Schönberg ("Gone! - Still yesterday Prince and great ...") [33] . Duration: 15 '. Premiere November 23, 1944 New York ( Carnegie Hall ; Mack Harrell [1909–1960] [speaker]; Eduard Steuermann [piano], New York Philharmonic , conductor: Artur Rodziński )
    • Version for speaker, string quartet and piano: see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and 3–7 instruments

For several voices with or without instrumental accompaniment

  • Many thousand flowers on the Au… (undated youth work) for 4-part mixed choir a cappella. Text: transmitted anonymously. WP: unknown
  • Ei du Lütte (E flat major, 1895/96?) For 4-part mixed choir a cappella. Text: Klaus Groth (1819–1899). Duration: ~ 1½ '. WP: unknown
  • Peaceful evening descends on the realm ... (F sharp minor, 1896?) For 4-part mixed choir. Text: Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850). WP: unknown
  • The German Michel ("Saint Michel, who is before God's throne ..."; D minor, ~ 1899–1901 / 1915/16 [?]). Battle song for 4- to 7-part [male choir] a cappella. Text: Ottokar Kernstock (1848–1928). WP: unknown
  • Darthulas Grabgesang (E flat minor, 1903; fragment) for choir (with solo quartet) and orchestra. Text: Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), after James Macpherson (" Ossian "; 1736–1796)
  • Three canonical choirs (1905) with 4 voices. Texts: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Proverbs )
1.  Oh, that the senses are so many! - 2.  When someone who is hard pressed complains - 3.  Do good
    • Goethe Sprüche (1916) as 4-part canons for mixed choir
  • Peace on earth (“Since the shepherds left their flock”; op. 13; 1907) for mixed choir a cappella. Text (1886): Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898). Duration: ~ 8 '. WP: unknown (planned performance with the Wiener Singverein under Franz Schalk did not take place in 1908; Anton Webern probably conducted the work in 1928). - Factory introduction: [34]
  • Gurre-Lieder (1900-03, 1910/11). Cantata for solos, choir and orchestra. Texts: Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885; from En cactus springer ud [“A cactus blooms”, 1869/70]), German by Robert Franz Arnold (1872–1938). Duration: ~ 110 '. Premiere February 23, 1913 Vienna (Musikverein, Großer Saal; Anna Bahr-Mildenburg [Waldtaube], Marya Freund [1876–1966] [Tove], Franz Nachod [Waldemar]; Philharmonic Choir, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra; Conductor: Franz Schreker) . - Work introduction by Agnes Grond [35]
Part I: 1.  Orchestral prelude - 2.  "Now the twilight mutes every note ..." - 3.  "Oh, when the moon's rays glide gently ..." - 4.  "Roß! My steed! How sluggish are you! " - 5.  " Stars cheer, the sea, it shines ... " - 6.  " The angels don't dance like this before God's throne ... " - 7.  " Now I tell you for the first time ... " - 8 .  “It's midnight time…” - 9.  “You send me a love look…” - 10.  “You wonderful Tove!” - 11th  orchestral interlude - 12.  “Doves from Gurre! Worry torments me! ... "
Part II: 1.  "Lord God, you know what you did ..."
Part III: 1.  “Wake up, King Waldemar's men!” - 2.  “The lid of the coffin rattles and folds ...” - 3.  “Greetings, O King, to Gurre-Seestrand!” - 4.  “He whispers in Tove's voice Forest ... " - 5.  " A strange bird is such an eel ... " - 6.  " You strict judge upstairs ... " - 7.  " The rooster lifts its head to the wire ... " - 8.  The wild hunt of the summer wind. Orchestra prelude - 9th  melodrama : "Herr Gänsefuß, Frau Gänsekraut ..." - 10th  "See the sun ..."
  • Early version for voice and piano (1900/01): see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and piano
  • Piano reduction by Arnold Schönberg (before 1904; lost)
  • Piano reduction by Alban Berg (1912/13)
  • Song of the wood pigeon . Arrangement for voice and chamber orchestra (1922): see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and orchestra
  • Arrangement of the 1st part for solos and 2 pianos for 8 hands. WP January 14, 1910 Vienna (Ehrbar-Saal; Martha Winternitz-Dorda [soprano], Hans Nachod [tenor]; Etta Werndorf, Arnold Winternitz [1872–1938], Anton Webern , Rudolf Weinrich [piano])
1.  Inescapable (“The brave are those who perform deeds…”; Arnold Schönberg) - 2.  You shouldn't, you must (“You shouldn't make a picture!”; Arnold Schönberg) - 3.  Moon and people (“Solang we are on earth… ”; Tschan-Jo-Su, German by Hans Bethge, from The Chinese Flute ) - 4.  The Desire of the Lover (“ Sweet Moonlight on the Plum Trees… ”; Hung-So Fan, German by Hans Bethge, from The Chinese Flute ). Accompaniment: mandolin , clarinet , violin and violoncello
  • Three satires for mixed choir (op.28; 1925/26; No. 3 with viola, violoncello and piano). Texts [39] : Arnold Schönberg. Duration: ~ 11 '. WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Agnes Grond [40]
1.  At the crossroads (“ Tonal or atonal ?”; 1925) - 2.  Versatility (“Yes, who is tommerlt there? / That's little Modernsky!”; 1925; Polemics against Igor Stravinsky ) - 3.  The new classicism ("I no longer stayed romantic ..."; 1925; cantata with solo voices and instruments; against Hugo Riemann and against " neoclassical " music)
    • Appendix I (1925/26): A saying and two variations about it
    • Appendix II (1926): Canon (C major) for string quartet
    • Appendix III (1926): Legitimation as Canon. Bernard Shaw in admiration on his 70th birthday
  • Six pieces for male choir (op. 35; 1929/30). Texts [41] : Arnold Schönberg. Duration: ~ 13 '. Premiere (No. 4) November 2, 1929 Berlin ( Berliner Rundfunk ; Erwin Lendvai Quartet, conductor: Walter Hänel). WP (complete) October 24, 1931 Hanau (13-member quartet of the workers' choir Vorwärts, conductor: Franz Schmitt). Nos. 4 and 6 were commissioned by the German Workers' Singers Association . - Factory introduction [42]
1.  Inhibition (“Is the language denied you?”; 1930) - 2.  The law (“If it happens as one is used to ...”; 1930) - 3.  Expression (“Out of us, in the mass instinct…”; 1930) - 4.  Happiness ("Happiness is the ability to still wish ..."; 1929) - 5.  Landsknechte ("One must die once ..."; 1930) - 6.  Solidarity ("One helps you come into the world ..." "; 1929)
  • Whoever wants to run with the world must have time (1926–34). Canon. Text: Arnold Schönberg. Dedication: “To my dear friends, Dr. David J. Bach ". WP: unknown
  • Kol Nidre (G minor, op. 39; 1938) for speaker ( rabbi ), mixed choir and orchestra. Duration: ~ 12 '. Premiere October 4, 1938 Los Angeles (on the eve of Yom Kippur ; conductor: Arnold Schönberg)
  • Prelude for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (for mixed choir and orchestra; op.44; for the Genesis Suite , 1945). Duration: ~ 6 '. Premiere November 18, 1945 Los Angeles (Wilshire Ebell Theater; Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, conductor: Werner Janssen ). - Factory introduction [43]
  • A Survivor from Warsaw ( A Survivor from Warsaw ) ( "I can not remember ev'rything ...", op 46;. 1947) for speaker, male chorus and orchestra. Text: Arnold Schönberg [44] (based on eyewitness reports from the Warsaw Ghetto ; final chorus: Schma Jisrael ). Duration: ~ 7 '. Dedication: “For the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky”. Premiere November 4, 1948 Albuquerque , New Mexico (Carlisle High School, University Campus; Sherman Smith [speaker]; Albuquerque Civic Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Kurt Frederick ). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [45]
  • Three folk song movements (op. 49; 1948) for mixed choir a cappella. Duration: ~ 10 '. WP: unknown. - Factory introduction [46]
1.  Two playmates went well ... - 2.  May comes with joy ... - 3.  My heart in constant faithfulness ...
    • No. 1 also in a version for voice and piano: see under Vocal compositions for solo voice and piano
  • Eight canons (1926-49). Texts: Arnold Schönberg
1.  Infinite four-part canon (“From my stones, stone…”; 1926). Dedication: “For Erwin Stein at Christmas 1926” - 2.  Arnold Schönberg congratulates warmly . 4-part riddle canon (in 4 keys) with free instrumental bass (1928) - 3.  Reflect yourself in the work: it's worth it twice for you . 2-part mirror canon (1931) - 4.  Everyone feels the same way; nobody stays at twenty forever - it happened to me too, but I comforted myself quickly . 2 related 3-part riddle canons, per augmentationem (1933) - 5.  It's too stupid, it's too bad . 4-part infinite canon with coda (1934) - 6.  Mr. Saunders I owe you thanks . 4-part infinite canon for equal voices (1939) - 7.  I am almost sure, when your nurse will change your diapers . Infinite canon for 4 equal voices (1945) - 8th center of  gravity of own solar system . 4-part canon in the Unterquart (1949)
  • Modern Psalms (1949-51)
    • Three times a thousand years ("Three times a thousand years since I saw you ..."; op. 50a; 1949) for mixed choir a cappella. Text: Dagobert David Runes (1902–1982; from Jordanlieder ). Duration: ~ 3 '. Premiere October 29, 1949 Stockholm ( Fylkingen ; Lilla Kammarkören [Lilla Chamber Choir], conductor: Eric Ericson ). - Factory introduction [47]
    • Israel exists again (1949; fragment) for mixed choir a cappella. Text: Arnold Schönberg. Premiere January 12, 1958 Hamburg (Conductor: Hans Rosbaud )
    • Psalm 130 ( De Profundis ["Shir hamaalot mima'amakim keraticha adonai ..."], op. 50b; 1950) for 6-part mixed choir a cappella. Duration: ~ 5 '. Dedication: "the State of Israel". Premiere January 29, 1954 in Cologne ( Westdeutscher Rundfunk choir , conductor: Bernhard Zimmermann). - Factory introduction [48]
    • Modern psalm ("O, Du mein Gott! Alle Völker Praise Dich ...", op. 50c; 1950/51; fragment) for speaker, mixed choir and orchestra. Text (1950): Arnold Schönberg. Duration: ~ 5 '. Premiere May 29, 1956 Cologne (Conductor: Nino Sanzogno [1911–1983])

Orchestral works

  • Notturno ( Adagio ; 1896) for solo violin, harp and strings. UA March 2, 1896 Vienna (ballroom of the Kaufmännischer Verein; “Polyhymnia” orchestra; conductor: Alexander von Zemlinsky?). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [49]
  • Gavotte and Musette (in the old style) (1897) for string orchestra
  • Pelleas and Melisande (op. 5; 1902/03). Symphonic poem based on the drama ofthe same name by Maurice Maeterlinck . Duration: ~ 40 '. Premiere January 25, 1905 Vienna (Musikverein, Great Hall; Orchestra of the Wiener Konzertverein, conductor: Arnold Schönberg)
    • Version for large orchestra (1911)
    • Revised new edition (1920)
  • Chamber symphony (No. 1, op. 9; 1906) for 15 solo instruments. Duration: ~ 22 '. Premiere February 8, 1907 Vienna (Musikverein, Großer Saal; Rosé Quartet and Wind Association of the Court Opera )
    • Excerpt for piano 4 hands (1907)
    • Version for piano quintet (fragment; 1907) - see under chamber music
    • revised version (1912) for 10 wind instruments and string orchestra. Premiere March 1913 Vienna (Musikverein, Great Hall; Conductor: Arnold Schönberg)
    • Version for orchestra (1914/22)
    • Version for large orchestra (op.9b; 1935/36). Premiere December 27, 1936 Los Angeles ( University of Southern California , Bovard Auditorium; Philharmonic Orchestra ; Conductor: Arnold Schönberg)
  • Second Chamber Symphony (E flat minor, op. 38; 1906–39) for small orchestra. Duration: ~ 20 '. Premiere December 15, 1940 New York ( Carnegie Hall ; Orchestra of the Friends of New Music, conductor: Fritz Stiedry ). - Program text by Arnold Schönberg: turning point (melodrama) [50] . - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [51]
1.  Adagio - 2.  Con fuoco
    • Version for 2 pianos (op.38b; 1941/42): see under music for keyboard instruments
  • Five orchestral pieces (op.16, 1909). Duration: ~ 16 '. Premiere September 3, 1912 London ( Queen's Hall ; Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor: Henry Wood )
1.  Pre-feelings - 2.  Past - 3.  Colors - 4.  Peripetia - 5.  The obligatory recitative
    • Arrangement of nos. 1, 2, 4 for 2 pianos eight hands by Erwin Stein . Premiere February 4, 1912 Berlin (Harmonium Hall; Louis Closson, Louis T. Grünberg , Eduard Steuermann , Anton Webern)
    • Version for chamber orchestra (1920)
    • Revised version for large orchestra (1922)
    • Version for standard orchestra (1949). Dedication: “This new edition is dedicated to the memory of Henri Hinrichsen a music publisher who was a great seigneur.”
  • Three pieces for chamber ensemble (1910). Duration: ~ 2 '. Premiere October 10, 1957 Berlin (members of the Berlin Philharmonic ). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [52]
1.  Rapid quarters - 2.  Moderate quarters - 3.  Walking quarters (fragment)
Introduction: Moderate, calm - Theme: Molto moderato - 1st variation: Moderato - 2nd variation: Slow - 3rd variation: Moderate - 4th variation: Waltz tempo - 5th variation: Moving - 6th variation: Andante - 7th variation : Slow - 8th variation: Very quickly - 9th variation: L'istesso tempo; but a little slower - Finale: moderately fast
  • Music to accompany a movie scene (op. 34; 1929/30). Duration: ~ 9 '. First broadcast April 8, 1930 Frankfurt (Südwestfunk; conductor: Hans Rosbaud ). Premiere November 6, 1930 Berlin ( Kroll Opera Orchestra , conductor: Otto Klemperer ). - Factory introduction [55]
Imminent danger - fear - disaster
  • Suite in the old style (G major; 1934) for string orchestra. Duration: ~ 29 '. Premiere May 18, 1935 Los Angeles (Philharmonic Auditorium; Philharmonic Orchestra , conductor: Otto Klemperer ). Work introduction by Matthias Schmidt [56]
1.  Overture. Fugue - 2nd  Adagio - 3rd  Minuet. Trio - 4th  Gavotte - 5th  Gigue
1.  Poco allegro - 2.  Andante grazioso - 3.  Finale. Allegro
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (op.42; 1942). Duration: ~ 20 '. Dedication: “To Henry Clay Shriver” [1917–1994]. Premiere February 6, 1944 New York (NBC Orchestra's Radio City Habitat; Eduard Steuermann [piano]; NBC Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Leopold Stokowski ). - Factory introduction [59]
Andante - Molto allegro - Adagio - Giocoso (moderato)
  • Theme and Variations for Full Band (for wind orchestra , op.43a; 1943). Duration: ~ 11 '. Premiere June 27, 1946 New York (Goldman Band, conductor: Richard Franko Goldman [1910–1980])
(Theme). Poco allegro - 1st variation - 2nd variation: Allegro molto - 3rd variation: Poco adagio - 4th variation: Tempo di valse - 5th variation: Molto moderato - 6th variation: Allegro - 7th variation: Moderato - Finale: Moderato

Music for keyboard instruments

  • Song without words (Adagio, D major; undated youth work) for piano
  • Three piano pieces (1894). WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Iris Pfeiffer [60]
1.  Andantino - 2.  Andantino grazioso - 3.  Presto
  • Six pieces (1896) for piano 4 hands. Duration: ~ 6 '. Dedication: "Miss Bella Cohn on February 14, 1896". WP: unknown
1.  Andante grazioso - 2.  Poco allegro - 3.  Rapid - 4.  Andante - 5.  Lively, rapid - 6.  Allegro molto
  • Three piano pieces (op.11; 1909/10). Duration: ~ 14 '. Premiere January 14, 1910 Vienna (Ehrbar-Saal; Etta Werndorff)
    • revised version (1924)
    • Arrangement of No. 2 for piano by Ferruccio Busoni (1910)
  • Six small piano pieces (op. 19; 1911). Duration: ~ 5 '. Premiere February 4, 1912 Berlin (Harmonium Hall; Louis Closson)
1.  Light, tender - 2.  Slow - 3.  Very slowly - 4.  Quickly, but easily - 5.  Somewhat quickly - 6.  Very slowly
  • Five piano pieces (op. 23; 1920–23). Duration: ~ 12 '. Premiere (No. 1–2) October 9, 1920 Vienna (Musikverein, Kleiner Saal; Eduard Steuermann ). Premiere (complete) autumn 1923 (Eduard Steuermann). - Factory introduction: [61]
1.  Very slowly (1920) - 2.  Very quickly (1920) - 3.  Slow (1923) - 4.  Lively (1920/23) - 5.  Waltz (1921/23)
  • Suite for piano (op. 25; 1921–23). Duration: ~ 16 '. Premiere February 25, 1924 Vienna (Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall; Eduard Steuermann )
1.  Prelude (1921) - 2.  Gavotte (1923) - 3.  Musette (1923) - 4.  Intermezzo (1921-23) - 5.  Minuet. Trio (1923) - 6th  Gigue (1923)
  • Piano pieces (op. 33a / b; 1928–31). Duration: ~ 6 '. UA (op. 33a) January 30, 1931 Berlin ( Else C. Kraus [1890–1979]). Premiere (op.33b) September 20, 1949 Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath ; Else C. Kraus). - Factory introduction [62]
(op.33a; 1928/29) moderately - (op.33b; 1931) moderately slow
  • Phantasia (1937; fragment) for piano 4 hands
  • Variations on a Recitative (in D, op. 40; 1941) for organ. Duration: ~ 16 '. Premiere April 10, 1944 in New York ( Carl Weinrich ). - Factory introduction [63]
Theme - Variations 1–10 - Cadenza (Fugue)
    • Version for 2 pianos (fragment)
  • Sonata (1941; fragment) for organ
Molto moderato - Allegretto
  • Fragments of various piano pieces (before 1900, 1900/01, 1905/06, 1909, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1931, from 1933 ...). - Overview [64] , introduction by Iris Pfeiffer [65]
  • Fragment of a piece for 2 pianos (1941)
  • Second Chamber Symphony (E flat minor). Version for 2 pianos (op.38b; 1941/42). Duration: ~ 20 '. WP: unknown
1.  Adagio - 2.  Con fuoco

Chamber music

Duos

  • Alliance Waltz (1882–?) For 2 violins. WP: unknown. - Factory introduction [66]
  • Sunshine Polka (1882–?) For 2 violins. WP: unknown
  • 3 songs without words (1882–?) For 2 violins. WP: unknown
  • Piece for violin and piano (D minor; 1893/94?). WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [67]
  • Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment (for violin with piano accompaniment; op.47; 1949) for violin and piano. Duration: ~ 9 '. Dedication: “Made upon the 'order' of Mr Adolf Koldofsky who pleased me with his performance of my String Trio”. Premiere September 11, 1949 Zurich (Theater am Neumarkt; Francine Villers [violin], Jacques Monod [piano]). American premiere September 13, 1949 Los Angeles (Assistance League of Southern California Playhouse; Adolph Koldofsky [1905–1951] [violin], Leonard Stein [1916–2004] [piano]). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [68]
Grave - Più mosso - Meno mosso - Lento - Grazioso - Tempo I - Più mosso - Scherzando - Poco tranquillo - Scherzando - Meno mosso - Tempo I

Trios

Quartets

String quartets

  • Presto (C major; ~ 1895) for string quartet. WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Eike Feß [71]
  • Scherzo (F major; 1897) for string quartet. Duration: ~ 8 '. WP: unknown. - Work introduction by Eike Feß [72]
  • Quartet (D major; 1897) for 2 violins, viola and violoncello. Duration: ~ 23 '. Premiere (private) March 17, 1898 Vienna (Fitzner Quartet). Premiere (public) December 20, 1898 Vienna ( Bösendorfer Hall ; Fitzner Quartet). - Work introduction by Eike Feß [73]
1.  Allegro molto - 2.  Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso - 3rd  Andante con moto. Variations 1–5 - 4th  Allegro
  • Quartet (No. 1, D minor, op.7; 1904/05) for 2 violins, viola and violoncello. Duration: ~ 44 '. Premiere February 5, 1907 Vienna ( Bösendorfer Hall ; Rosé Quartet )
1. [no name] - 2.  Scherzo - 3.  Adagio - 4.  Rondo. final
  • Second quartet (F sharp minor, op. 10; 1907/08): see under vocal works
  • Third string quartet (op. 30; 1927). Duration: ~ 30 '. Dedication: “ Dedicated to Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge ”. Premiere September 19, 1927 Vienna (Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall; Kolisch Quartet). - Introductions by Camille Crittenden and Arnold Schönberg: [74]
1.  Moderato - 2.  Adagio - 3.  Intermezzo. Allegro moderato - 4th  rondo. Molto moderato
  • Fourth String Quartet (op. 37; 1936). Duration: ~ 32 '. Dedication: “To the ideal patron of chamber music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to the ideal interpreters of it The Kolisch Quartet”. Premiere January 8, 1937 Los Angeles ( University of California , Josiah Royce Hall; Kolisch Quartet). - Introductions by Mirjam Schlemmer and Arnold Schönberg [75]
1.  Allegro molto; energico - 2nd  Comodo - 3rd  Largo - 4th  Allegro

Canons

  • Eyn double mirror u. Key canon for four voices set the Dutch way (1922)

Quintets

  • Chamber Symphony (No. 1, Op. 9). Version for piano quintet (fragment; 1907)
  • The Iron Brigade (1916). March for string quartet and piano. Duration: ~ 4 '. Dedication note: “Original manuscript given to Dr. v. Kusmitsch 1916 Senior Lt. in Bruck a / L a court clerk in Budapest (who did not understand how to appreciate it) ”. Premiere presumably in 1916 in Bruck an der Leitha (at a one-year camaraderie evening)
  • Christmas music (1921; arrangement of the chorale “ Es ist ein Ros sprung ”) for two violins, violoncello, piano and harmonium . Duration: ~ 6 '. Premiere 1921 (?)
  • Quintet (op. 26; 1923/24) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. Duration: ~ 38 '. Dedication: “Dem Bubi Arnold” (Schönberg's grandson Arnold Greissle [* 1923]). Premiere September 16, 1924 Vienna (conductor: Felix Greissle [1894–1982]). - Work introduction by Therese Muxeneder [76]
1.  Lively (1923) - 2.  Graceful and cheerful; Scherzando (1923) - 3.  A little slow (poco Adagio) (1924) - 4.  Rondo (1924)
    • Arrangements by Felix Greissle:
      • for high instrument (violin / flute / clarinet) and piano (1926)
      • for piano 4 hands (1926)

Sextets

  • Blind spot (B minor, 1898/99 ?; fragment). Symphonic poem for string sextet , based on a poem by Gustav Falke (1853–1916). - Work introduction by Iris Pfeiffer [77]
  • Transfigured Night (op. 4; 1899). String sextet (for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 violoncellos), based on the poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel ("Two people walk through a bare, cold grove ..."). Duration: ~ 28 '. Premiere March 18, 1902 Vienna (Musikverein, Kleiner Saal; Rosé Quartet ; Franz Jelinek [2nd viola], Franz Schmidt [2nd violoncello]). - Introductions by Arnold Schönberg [78] [79] and Therese Muxeneder [80]
    • Revised version (1905)
    • Versions for string orchestra (1917/43): see under orchestral works

Septet

  • Suite (op. 29; 1924–26) for small clarinet, clarinet, bass clarinet , violin, viola, violoncello and piano. Duration: ~ 29 '. Dedication: "My dear wife" (Gertrud Kolisch). Premiere December 15, 1927 Paris (Grande Salle Pleyel; Cahuzac, Hery, Delacroix [clarinets], Darrieux, Boulay, Frecheville [strings], Eduard Steuermann [piano]; conductor: Arnold Schönberg). - Introductions by Theodor W. Adorno [81] and the Arnold Schönberg Center [82]
1.  Overture. Allegretto (1924–26) - 2nd  dance steps. Moderato (1925) - 3rd  theme with variations (1925) - 4th  Gigue (1925/26)

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  1. ^ Printed as a music supplement with permission from the Universal Edition in: Kandinsky / Franz Marc: Der Blaue Reiter , Piper, Munich 1912 (reprint of the 1912 edition. Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24121-2 )
  2. ^ Letter from Anton Webern to Arnold Schönberg, November 1928; see introduction to the works by Therese Muxeneder ( Arnold Schönberg Center ): [1]

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