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Two Songs for Baritone and Piano, op. 2

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Alexander Zemlinksy and Arnold Schönberg, Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

Alexander Zemlinksy and Arnold Schönberg, Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

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The only recording that originated during Arnold Schönberg’s lifetime of one of his pre-1900 songs is from a concert organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music at the Assistance League Playhouse in Los Angeles on September 13, 1949 to mark his 75th birthday. The piano accompaniment was performed by Leonard Stein, Schönberg’s former student at the UCLA, and it is presumable that the scores used for the concert were discussed by pianist and composer beforehand. After missing the concert in Los Angeles for health reasons, Schönberg listened to the live recording of the works on phonograph discs that were delivered to him by sound recording manager John Campbell and Leonard Stein. Schönberg was impressed with the quality of the recording: “wonderfully recorded by Mr. Campbell.” (Letter to Adolph Koldofsky, September 16, 1949). “The early songs follow in the tradition of Brahms and Hugo Wolf but even in opus 1, Schoenberg strives for an intensified dramatic expression of his own with the piano serving as ‘stage-setter,’ logically unfolding the development of the text.” (Leonard Stein)

The opus 1 songs were dedicated to the composer Alexander Zemlinsky, who was Schönberg’s friend, short-term teacher and brother-in-law, and also accompanied the songs at the premiere in Vienna (December 1900). Zemlinsky lived at Obere Weißgerberstraße 16, in Vienna’s 3rd district, between 1899 and 1903. (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)

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