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SCHOENBERG AT THE CABARET
concert club: CELEBRATING AN ICON OF MODERNISM
When we think of Arnold Schoenberg, the concept of ‘fun’ isn't necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. So, for the composer’s 150th birthday, UNLTD, with the help of the Verbier Festival Academy’s talented soloists and singers, offers a glimpse of the lighter, humorous side of Schoenberg's character through his Brettl-Lieder, the beginnings of the Weimar cabaret tradition.
Programme
Works by Schoenberg, Eisler, Weill, Gershwin…
Distribution
In 1901, the Carltheater in Vienna, whose musical director was Schoenberg’s brother-in-law Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1900, hosted the Berlin cabaret ‘Überbrettl’, founded by Ernst von Wolzogen and modelled on the Parisian ‘Chat noir’. Schoenberg composed eight songs between April and September 1901, including some from the anthology Deutsche Chansons (Brettl-Lieder) published by Bierbaum, and offered them to von Wolzogen for the Überbrettl.