{"id":129,"date":"2012-07-10T06:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-07-10T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:49:35","slug":"schoenberg-on-the-auction-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Schoenberg on the auction block"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sotheby’s will be auctioning off a copy of the Second String Quartet, Op. 10. \u00a0The signed manuscript is estimated at $150,000 to $184,000.<\/p>\n

Signed Autograph Manuscript of Arnold Schoenberg\u2019s String Quartet (op.10) This landmark work in Schoenberg\u2019s oeuvre, and in 20th century music as a whole, broke with string quartet tradition by introducing a soprano voice to the last two movements. This manuscript is the cornerstone of Schoenberg\u2019s development of atonality: In the fourth movement, Schoenberg for the first time dispenses with the use of key signatures. Schoenberg composed the work in 1908 during the troubled period marked by his wife Mathilde\u2019s affair with their mutual friend, the artist Richard Gerstl. Schoenberg\u2019s reconciliation with his wife led to Gerstl\u2019s suicide, and Schoenberg soberly dedicated this quartet to his wife (Meiner Frau). Weakened by the trials of World War One war, Mathilde spent the last weeks of her life at Auersperg Sanatorium; the Seybert family invited Schoenberg and his closest relatives to stay with them so as to be close to her. After Mathilde\u2019s death in October 1923, Schoenberg gave them this well-preserved copy of his second quartet in gratitude for their hospitality (est. \u20ac100,000-150,000\/ $122,800-184,100).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of the above-mentioned “history” of the quartet has been debunked by Raymond Coffer on his site devoted to Richard Gerstl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the website provides compelling evidence of the extent to which Mathilde\u2019s infidelity was represented in Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s works from the time. In particular, it examines in great detail the history of Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s composition of his\u00a0Second String Quartet<\/em><\/a>, in whose fourth movement,\u00a0Entrueckung<\/em>, the composer\u00a0is generally considered to have crossed the line to atonality for the first time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sch\u00f6nberg completed the work during July and\u00a0early August 1908 while staying in\u00a0Preslg\u00fctl<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(right), a waterside farmhouse in the stunning lakeside resort of Gmunden that he had rented for his family\u2019s summer vacation. Here, on the eastern banks of the Traunsee, he had been joined by his studenst and friends, including Gerstl. However, a couple of weeks after Sch\u00f6nberg had completed the composition, Gerstl and Mathilde were discovered\u00a0in flagrante delicto<\/em>, possibly in Gerstl\u2019s own holiday farmhouse. Shocked by his wife\u2019s betrayal, Sch\u00f6nberg summarily rejected her pleas, upon which the two lovers fled from Gmunden back to Vienna.<\/p>\n

It is, perhaps, unsurprising that this juxtaposition of events should have prompted a raft of scholarly musicological conjecture that has somewhat questionably concluded that not only had\u00a0Sch\u00f6nberg represented his emotions regarding the affair in his\u00a0Second String Quartet<\/em><\/a>, but that Mathilde\u2019s infidelity had acted as the catalyst for his historic leap to atonality. Such speculation, however, is firmly refuted by the timeline established within this research, which strongly indicates that, rather than events in Gmunden having had an influence on Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s startling musical development in his\u00a0Second String Quartet<\/em><\/a>, there may have been other powerful factors that caused him to write atonally for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Postscript:\u00a0Nuria points out that the Seybert family were the parents of the photographer Lisette Model<\/a>, who was a friend of Trudi Sch\u00f6nberg. Lisette studied music with Schoenberg in 1920-21. She later wrote, \u201cIf ever in my life I had one teacher and one great influence, it was Sch\u00f6nberg,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sotheby’s will be auctioning off a copy of the Second String Quartet, Op. 10. \u00a0The signed manuscript is estimated at $150,000 to $184,000. Signed Autograph Manuscript of Arnold Schoenberg\u2019s String Quartet (op.10) This landmark work in Schoenberg\u2019s oeuvre, and in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}