Erwartung

ERWARTUNGArnold Shoenburg

Anticipation

Shoenburg’s first work for the stage 30-minute Monodrama Written for single Soprano Musical Monologue Takes over 2 weeks to compose Psychoanalysis

Story- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCQk5toHS9c&feature=related

In the end, the audience decides

History

Work completed Autumn 1909. Erste Niederschrift (continuity draft in short score)

completed 12 September final draft (fair copy) of score on 4 October late 1909- arrangements with Artur Bodansky

first performance in Mannheim in the Spring of 1910 premier not given until 1924 in Prague. 

No performance, no publication finally published in 1923- piano arrangement

disappeared for a while, favoring a simpler arrangement

now in private hands

Crayon, pastel and watercolor on paper (Stage settings)

Tonality

Free non-tonal language NOT 12-tone (pre-12 tone)

Embodiment of Expressionism Exceeds in tonal and contrapuntal complexity

almost anything composed up to that time Orchestra of 100 players

Jessye Norman: http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErXOMu7DW8

Libretto

Maria Pappenheim Born 1882 in Czechoslovakia Commissioned in 1909 Die Frau Stream-of-consciousness

Was already considering writing the work before Shoenburg approached her

Anna O.

Sister Bertha Pappenheim Phychoanalysis “catharsis”

Talking cure Bruer First Freud Hysteric

Anna O.? Recovers- author, playwright, spokesperson

for women’s and Jewish rights.

Short, Fragmented Speech Repetitive Shouting/Mute

Bibilography

Discourses in Music: Volume 3 Number 2 (Winter 2001-2002)Schoenberg's Erwartung and Freudian Case Histories: A Preliminary Investigation1 By Alexander Carpenter. http://www.discourses.ca/v3n2a1.html

Shoenburg’s Sketch http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/painting/stagesethtms/ritter216.htm

German literature and music : an aesthetic fusion, 1890-1989 / edited by Claus Reschke and Howard Pollack.  c1992. 

Said, Edward W. Music at the limits / Edward W. Said. c2008.  Scheideler, Ullrich. Erwartung : op. 17 : kritischer Bericht,

Skizzen, Textgenese und Textvergleich, Entstehungs- und Werkgeschichte, Dokumente ; Und Pippa tanzt! (Fragment) / herausgegeben von Ullrich Scheideler. 2005. Translation by Richard Deveson.