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String Quartet No. 1 in D minor op. 7. Finale
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| Title | String Quartet No. 1 in D minor op. 7. Finale |
| Playing time | 00:04:17 |
| Authors |
Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in]
[GND]
Kolisch Quartett [Quartett] |
| Date |
1936 [Aufnahmedatum] 1937 [Aufnahmedatum] |
| Place |
Gmunden, Hois’n-Wirt / Hois’n Tavern [Ortsbezug]
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| Keywords | Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme |
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20. Jahrhundert - Nullerjahre
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| Type | audio |
| Format |
SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack] |
| Numbers |
10350 [Katalognummer] |
| Language |
Englisch |
| Signature | Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00242_b01_k02 |
| Media type | Mp3-Audiodatei |
Gmunden, Hois’n Tavern. Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
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While spending his summer vacation with his family at the tavern “Hois’n Wirt” in Gmunden am Traunsee in 1905, Arnold Schönberg worked on his String Quartet No. 1 op. 7 which he had already begun in 1904. Some programmatic notes have been preserved in a sketchbook from 1904/05, referring to the music of this first quartet: they range from “rejection, defiance” and “desperation” to “enthusiastic strength to fight, development of fantasy, energy” to “quiet happiness and the return of peace and harmony.” Schönberg made it very clear in later years that although he had laid down such a “program,” it was however of a completely private nature and belonged to the genesis of the work, and not to its aesthetic substance. Instead, he always pointed out the constructive achievement of this generously dimensioned work, imprinted with wide-spanning melodies as well as with differentiated rhythms and counterpoint.
Although all the details of this personal “program” were not implemented, the emotions depicted seem to correspond to passages in the music. In the final bars of the work, which lasts over 40 minutes in total, the main theme presented in an entirely masterful tone at the beginning arrives as an apotheosis in “peace and harmony.” The audio example begins at the entry by Rudolf Kolisch, leader of the ensemble that was named after him. The ensemble made a complete phonograph recording of Schönberg’s string quartets at the end of 1936/beginning of 1937. (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)
Although all the details of this personal “program” were not implemented, the emotions depicted seem to correspond to passages in the music. In the final bars of the work, which lasts over 40 minutes in total, the main theme presented in an entirely masterful tone at the beginning arrives as an apotheosis in “peace and harmony.” The audio example begins at the entry by Rudolf Kolisch, leader of the ensemble that was named after him. The ensemble made a complete phonograph recording of Schönberg’s string quartets at the end of 1936/beginning of 1937. (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)
