Arnold Schönberg Center

The Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna since 1998, central Bewahrungsort of Arnold Schoenberg's estate and a public cultural center. It is located in the Palais Fanto at the Schwarzenberg Platz 6 in the 3rd district of Vienna highway.

Supporting organization of the ASC is the Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation, which was established jointly by the City of Vienna and the International Schönberg Society.

The estate of Arnold Schoenberg, this museum was set up for, was declared a UNESCO World Documentary Heritage ( Memory of the World ), 2011.

History

Tan Dun remained after his death in 1951 in his family and was managed until 1964 by his widow Gertrud Schoenberg. In the 1970s, decided his heirs to make the collection, which was founded in 1973 Arnold Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles are available where next to a performing and exhibition space an archive was built, which was open to the public until 1997. Leonard Stone, a pupil of Schoenberg, director of the Institute as its first director. In its 25 - year history, the Institute of thousands of scientists, artists, students and those interested in music was consulted.

As the specification of the Schönberg- Heirs, institute and archive should engage in research and teaching relate to the person Arnold Schoenberg, was no longer met in the 1990s by the University of Southern California, came in 1996 with the heir to a lawsuit. To facilitate collection, cities, universities and private tried in New York, Vienna, Berlin, The Hague, Basel, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Arizona, as well as in Los Angeles, the Getty Center and the University of California at Los Angeles.

Finally, Vienna was the birthplace of Schoenberg and as the birthplace and namesake of the Second Viennese School to the new location of the estate. In early 1997, the Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation was founded by the City of Vienna and the International Schönberg Society.

The purpose of the Foundation includes the establishment of the Arnold Schoenberg Archives (legacy ), its maintenance and care, the education of the public in relation to Schoenberg's interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as the teaching and dissemination of Schoenberg's contributions to music and other achievements. The purposes of the Foundation are to be achieved inter alia through the provision of access and the availability of Schönberg legacy of scientific studies and research, regularly organizing exhibitions, concerts and other events, holding symposia and conferences as well as the exhibition of paintings and drawings Arnold Schoenberg, which were asked of the foundation of their owners as a long- term loan.

In May 2011, the estate of Arnold Schoenberg was included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO.

Activities

The Center houses an archive and a reference library. It serves as a venue for exhibitions, concerts, lectures, workshops and symposia. Schoenberg's work with original furnishings and utensils work is accessible all year round. The Center publishes the scientific periodical the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. For pictorial oeuvre Schoenberg a Catalogue raisonné was published. In addition, the Schoenberg Center regularly awards the Arnold Schönberg Prize to international composers.

The archive is accessible all year round for scientists, composers, musicians and the general public. The collection includes some 20,000 pages of manuscript music and text, historical photographs, personal documents, diaries, concert programs, Schoenberg's library, memorabilia and instruments; further copies and digital copies of the world's stocks of Schönbergiana. On the web digital facsimiles of all autographs, paintings and letters will be published. In addition, Schoenberg's works and sound recordings are available as an audio stream.

Schönberg House in Mödling

In March 1997, the International Society Schoenberg Schoenberg took residence in Mödling ( 1918-1925 ) in the newly established Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation one which is open to the public since September 1999 as a memorial museum