MUSIK AM 13. – Two anniversaries: Schmidt and Schoenberg

Programme

Franz Schmidt 1874–1939
Prelude and Fugue in E flat
from “Four Short Preludes and Fugues” (1928)

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Fragment from the incomplete Sonata for Organ (1941)
Variations on a Recitative op. 40 (1941)

Eckart Schultz-Berg, narrator
Roman Summereder, organ

7.15pm Introduction: Prof. Roman Summereder in conversation with Dr. Ute Harbusch

Admission free, donations welcome

About the programme

Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schmidt. They were born in the same year and played quartets together in Vienna. One was a giant of 20th century music, who had to emigrate and earn his living by giving private lessons until the end of his life. The other was the Principal of the Vienna Musikhochschule, courted by the Nazi regime as the greatest living Austrian composer, and now almost forgotten in the footnotes of music history. In their organ works, the Jewish exponent of the Viennese School and the Catholic late Romantic meet.