{"id":7072,"date":"2025-10-28T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:00:32","slug":"the-second-viennese-school-and-the-modernist-avant-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/2025\/10\/28\/the-second-viennese-school-and-the-modernist-avant-garde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Viennese School and the Modernist Avant-garde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-1024x301.jpg\" alt=\"Beyond the Notes Logo\" class=\"wp-image-6240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-1024x301.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-768x226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Beyond the Notes presents<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Beyond the Notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Vienna 1913<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, 12:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Charles Library Event Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">All programs are free and open to all, and <a href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/events\/2169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registration<\/a> is encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Watschenkonzert_Karikatur_in_Die_Zeit_vom_6._April_1913-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Watschenkonzert_Karikatur_in_Die_Zeit_vom_6._April_1913-1.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white cartoon showing a brawl involving musicians and concertgoers in elegant attire.\" class=\"wp-image-7074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Watschenkonzert_Karikatur_in_Die_Zeit_vom_6._April_1913-1.jpg 472w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Watschenkonzert_Karikatur_in_Die_Zeit_vom_6._April_1913-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A caricature of the <em>Skandalkonzert<\/em> which appeared in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Die_Zeit_(Vienna)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Die Zeit<\/a><\/em> on 6 April, 1913 (<a href=\"https:\/\/newsv2.orf.at\/stories\/2175106\/2175105\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the first Beyond the Notes concert of the 2025-2026 academic year! This month&#8217;s concert features student performances of works from a variety of genres, from operetta to chamber music, that would have been performed in Vienna, Austria in the year 1913. Composers whose works will be highlighted on this concert include Alban Berg, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmerich_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emmerich K\u00e1lm\u00e1n<\/a>, Arnold Schoenberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alma_Mahler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alma Mahler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karol_Szymanowski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karol Szymanowski<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erich_Wolfgang_Korngold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erich Wolfgang Korngold<\/a>. Two of these composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, along with Anton Webern, make up the Second Viennese School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Second Viennese School?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The term <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Viennese_School\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Second Viennese School<\/a> refers to three composers: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. This trio is positioned as the successors to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, who make up the First Viennese School. None of these composers ran an actual school or were closely associated with the Vienna Conservatory, but rather are the source of new approaches to music that fundamentally changed how tonality, which is the patterns of tension and release that orient listeners to music, functioned in music. While the composers in the First Viennese School lived and worked in Vienna for some portion of their musical career, all three members of the Second Viennese School were born natives of the city that would eventually define itself as the birthplace of classical music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the Second Viennese School were advocates of experimental music and proponents of atonality, which is music that does not fit into any single key signature and generally lacks the melodic and harmonic expectations cultivated by the previous century of music. While each composer developed their own unique approach to atonality, this compositional style remained a defining feature of all three composers\u2019 creative output.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arnold Schoenberg, The Man Who Started It All<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped-754x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of a balding man with blue tinted skin wearing a white collar, in the Expressionist style.\" class=\"wp-image-7084\" style=\"width:456px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped-768x1043.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/960px-Blaues_Selbstportrait_cropped.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arnold Schoenberg, self portrait, 1912 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Schoenberg#\/media\/File:Blaues_Selbstportrait_(cropped).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Schoenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arnold Schoenberg<\/a> was born in the Leopoldstadt district, a middle-class residential area, in Vienna on September 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 1874. Aside from counterpoint lessons with the composer and conductor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_von_Zemlinsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexander Zemlinsky<\/a>, Schoenberg mostly taught himself to compose. His early music followed trends established by composers <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Brahms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johannes Brahms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Wagner<\/a> in that they were tonal, but featured dense chromaticism and complex interaction between melodic lines. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Two examples of Schoenberg\u2019s tonal, often called \u201cexpressionist,\u201d works are <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5h5Xc-rUef4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Verkl\u00e4rte Nacht<\/a><\/em> (<em>Transfigured Night<\/em>) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BKYcpI23QY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gurre-lieder<\/a>. <\/em>These two works became quite popular with the Viennese public, establishing Schoenberg as a prominent composer and potential successor to Brahms or Wagner. <em>Gurre-lieder <\/em>was particularly well received during its premiere in Vienna in 1913. Despite the adulation it won him, Schoenberg was less than pleased with the reception of <em>Gurre-lieder <\/em>since he had done most of the work on that piece about ten years prior. During those ten years, Schoenberg began experimenting with atonality. <em>Gurre-lieder <\/em>was<em>&nbsp;<\/em>a large-scale work that featured some musical techniques that would later appear in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bd2cBUJmDr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pierrot Lunaire<\/a><\/em>, one of Schoenberg&#8217;s most well-known atonal works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As Schoenberg defined it, atonality is characterized by \u201cfreedom of the note,\u201d which means that notes in the chromatic scale are no longer forced into a hierarchy based on their function. \u201cFree\u201d atonality is the term used to describe music that does not fit within a key signature, but also does not follow the tenets of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">serialism<\/a>.&nbsp;In addition to being completely atonal, <em>Pierrot Lunaire <\/em>utilized a unique type of&nbsp;singing known as <em>sprechstimme<\/em> (literally, \u201cspeech-singing&#8221;). The sparse texture, unusual vocal timbre, and complete lack of tonality set symbolist poems to great success and much critical debate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anton Webern, Musicologist Turned Composer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912-750x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of a serious looking white man wearing a suit and glasses.\" class=\"wp-image-7078\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Anton_Webern_in_Stettin_October_1912.jpg 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Webern in 1912 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Anton_Webern_in_Stettin,_October_1912.jpg#file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Born to a minor aristocratic family, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anton_Webern#1908%E2%80%931914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anton Webern<\/a>&nbsp;mostly grew up in Graz. His later reflections frequently center around summers spent at his family&#8217;s cottage in the Eastern Alps. His family was musical, so he grew up playing chamber music. Webern attended the University of Vienna where he studied with prominent musicologist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guido_Adler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guido Adler <\/a>and received a doctorate in musicology with additional studies in Catholic liturgy. He met Schoenberg through Adler and joined Schoenberg\u2019s circle from there. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0c0c9e10 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Of the three composers in the Second Viennese School, Webern was the most influenced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Expressionism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Expressionist movement<\/a> and the last of the three to move fully away from tonality. His <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nF82BS3R6Lk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6<\/a><\/em> is a characteristic example of Webern&#8217;s take on atonality. Despite encouragement to leave Nazi-occupied territory from Schoenberg and Alban Berg, who was Schoenberg\u2019s other prominent student, Webern remained in and around Vienna for most of his life. His attachment to the city came at the cost of personal safety and financial security once his music was labeled by the Nazis as &#8220;degenerate,&#8221; and he eventually had to flee to the countryside towards the end of WWII. Webern died after the Allied forces had taken Austria. He was shot by an American soldier while smoking outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alban Berg, Composer of Extremes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942-676x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia-toned image of a white man with wavy brown hair wearing a suit and tie.\" class=\"wp-image-7079\" style=\"width:467px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942-768x1163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942-1015x1536.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2025\/10\/Alban_Berg_1885\u20131935_1930_\u00a9_Max_Fenichel_1885\u20131942.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Berg in 1930 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alban_Berg#\/media\/File:Alban_Berg_(1885%E2%80%931935)_~1930_%C2%A9_Max_Fenichel_(1885%E2%80%931942).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born to a relatively wealthy family in Vienna, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alban_Berg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alban Berg<\/a> was more interested in writing than music until he started taking composition lessons with Arnold Schoenberg. From his letters, Berg experienced significant anxiety surrounding his compositions and frequently desired Schoenberg\u2019s approval for his works. Berg also wrote several theoretical explanations of Schoenberg\u2019s music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Berg\u2019s lieder, or art songs, are extremely short in duration and dense in motivic material. One of his earlier compositions, settings of poetry by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Altenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Altenberg<\/a>, featured at a concert of music by Schoenberg and his students in Vienna 1913 that would later be known as the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skandalkonzert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Skandalkonzert<\/a><\/em>. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rHFFPyU41_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wozzeck<\/a>, <\/em>Berg\u2019s first atonal opera, was quite successful and gave Berg the confidence to continue composing full time in addition to starting work on his next opera, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u5ft39UKVtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lulu<\/a><\/em>. Unfortunately, Berg died before he was able to finish orchestrating the third and final act of <em>Lulu<\/em>, though it has since been completed and performed in its entirety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suggested Reading:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry, Mark. <em>Arnold Schoenberg<\/em>. Reaktion Books Ltd., 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991037039839003811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991037039839003811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Floros, Constantin. <em>Alban Berg: Music as Autobiography<\/em>. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch. Peter Lang, 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991009899759703811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991009899759703811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pufett, Kathryn and Barbara Schingnitz. <em>Three Men of Letters: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg<\/em>,<em> Alban Berg and Anton Webern, 1906-1921<\/em>. Hollitzer, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991039069462803811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991039069462803811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schoenberg, Arnold. <em>Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg<\/em>. edited by Leonard Stein. University of California Press, 1984. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991012207289703811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991012207289703811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simms, Bryan R. <em>Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School<\/em>. Greenwood Press, 1999. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991012207289703811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991012207289703811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright, James K. and Alan M. Gilmor, eds. <em>Schoenberg&#8217;s Chamber Music, Schoenberg&#8217;s World<\/em>. Pendragon Press, 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991037718677903811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991037718677903811<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Joanna Moxley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the Notes presents Beyond the Notes: Vienna 1913 Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. Welcome to the first Beyond the Notes concert of the 2025-2026 academic year! 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