Arnold Schoenberg in Leipzig - 1914

from Arnold Schoenberg Letters, page 45:

Having meanwhile been in London and Prague, I have only today found time to tell you how much pleasure your Leipzig performance of my chamber symphony gave me. Above all because it constituted a démenti of the remark about myself attributed to you and circulated by loutish newspaper-scribblers in order to damage me. In calmer moments I myself always knew that there could not have been anything more…   more >>

cite as

Arnold Schoenberg, and Erwin Stein (ed.), Arnold Schoenberg Letters (1964), p. 45. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1448980606961 accessed: 4 December, 2024

location of experience: Leipzig

Listeners

Arnold Schoenberg
Composer
1874-1951

Listening to

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Chamber Symphony
written by Arnold Schoenberg
performed by Artúr Nikisch

Experience Information

Date/Time 1914
Medium live
Listening Environment indoors, in public

Notes

Letter from Arnold Schoenberg to Arthur Nikisch. Berlin, 31 January 1914.


Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:36:48 +0000
Approved on Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:32:19 +0100