Schönberg – Vienna: The Beginning

Schönberg lived in the Vienna of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he fled to Los Angeles where he played a leading role in the intellectual community that formed with the arrival of other emigrants such as Thomas Mann, Salka and Berthold Viertel, Max Reinhart and Bertolt Brecht.

 
Two concerts tell his story and investigate the challenges of the modern era. The first, entitled Schönberg – Vienna: The Beginning, immerses us in the music that the composer wrote in Vienna and Berlin, combining it with that of two of his contemporaries.
 
 

CREDITS
 
Music
Sextet from ‘Capriccio’ Prelude Op.85, Richard Strauss
Langsamer Satz, Anton Webern
Verklärte Nacht Op.4, Arnold Schönberg

 
Performed by
QUARTETTO FONÈ
Paolo Chiavacci, violin
Marco Facchini, violin
Chiara Foletto, viola
Filippo Burchietti, cello
Olga Arzilli, viola
Sebastiano Severi, cello