V035: My War Years: Arnold Schönberg
Toronto, Canada: Rhombus Media, 1992.
VHS (NTSC) color, 81:57. In English with German subtitles
VHS (NTSC) color, 81:57. In German with English subtitles
Contents
Program
Cast
Arnold Schönberg's "Home Movies"
Critics' Voices
Performers
- Strauss, Emperor's Waltz
- Transfigured Night, op. 4
- String quartet no. 2, op. 10
- 5 Orchestra pieces, op. 16 (I, II, III)
- 6 Little piano pieces, op. 19 (1, 4, 6)
Performers (cont'd.)
- Pierrot lunaire, op. 21
- Erwartung, op. 17
- Gurre-Lieder
- "The Iron Brigade"
- Phantasy, op. 47
- "Oh, du lieber Augustin"
- "Die Berliner Luft" from "Frau Luna"
Credits
Program
| Time | Visual | Music |
| 0:00 | AS photo (voice-over) | |
| 1:00 | Credits | Gurre-Lieder (beginning) |
| 2:45 | Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Gurre-Lieder | cont'd. |
| 3:14 | "Vienna 1923", photo of Burgtheater | cont'd. |
| voice-over of Egon Wellesz, then interview with him standing in the Kunsthistorisches Museum | cont'd. | |
| 3:28 | Salka Viertel | cont'd. |
| 3:35 | Alban Berg in his study at home | cont'd. |
| 3:45 | Orchestra | cont'd. |
| 3:55 | Roberto Gerhard in Loos's Postal Savings Bank | cont'd. |
| 4:10 | Wassily Kandinsky in a living room | cont'd. |
| 4:34 | Orchestra | cont'd. |
| 4:55 | "Musikverein, Vienna," interior, empty concert hall | cont'd. |
| 5:05 | AS photo with voice-over | cont'd. |
| 5:30 | AS looking out window | Gurre-Lieder ends at rehearsal 9 |
| 6:08 | Film of Vienna street scene | |
| "Johann Strauss Jr.'s The Emperor's Waltz, arranged by Arnold Schönberg" | Emperor's Waltz, AS arr. | |
| 6:20 | Photo, Pauline Nachod with Arnold and Heinrich, voice-over of Hans Nachod | cont'd. |
| 6:28 | "Hans Nachod, Tenor," interview in Musikverein concert hall | cont'd. |
| 6:36 | Wellesz | cont'd. |
| 6:45 | Vienna street scenes, Prater. AS voice-over | cont'd. |
| 7:26 | "David Josef Bach, Musicologist/Friend of Schönberg," interview in the Prater | cont'd. |
| 7:45 | Photo of AS as young man | cont'd. |
| 7:50 | Street scenes, AS voice-over | cont'd. |
| 8:10 | Photo of AS and Zemlinsky | cont'd. |
| 8:15 | Interview with Zemlinsky in Theater in der Josefstadt [?] | cont'd. |
| 8:42 | "Alma Mahler, Friend of Schönberg," interview with Alma Mahler in Café Central | cont'd. |
| 8:57 | Photo of AS playing cello | cont'd. |
| 9:05 | Zemlinsky | cont'd. |
| 9:14 | Nachod | cont'd. |
| 9:32 | Street scene (Graben, Pestsäule), dance, Opera house | cont'd. |
| 9:57 | "Egon Wellesz, Composer/Former Schönberg pupil" | |
| 10:10 | "Transfigured Night, op. 4," sextet | op. 4 (beginning) |
| 10:38 | Photo of AS, voice-over | cont'd. |
| 10:48 | Sextet | cont'd. |
| 11:20 | Zemlinsky | cont'd. |
| 11:37 | Photo of Mahler | cont'd. |
| 11:50 | Zemlinsky | cont'd. |
| 12:00 | Sextet | cont'd. |
| 12:30 | "Erwin Stein, Writer, Schönberg pupil," interview in the Augustiner Lesesaal of the Nationalbibliothek | cont'd. |
| 12:50 | Sextet | cont'd. |
| 14:00 | Painting of Crucifixion [in Lower Belvedere?] | cont'd. |
| 14:08 | "Felix Greissle, Schönberg's Son-in-law and Pupil," interview in a living room next to a piano | cont'd. |
| 14:23 | Mock footage of AS's wedding to Mathilde | cont'd. |
| 14:38 | "Oskar Kokoschka, Painter," interview in Loos's American Bar | cont'd. |
| 14:52 | Wedding footage | cont'd. |
| 15:07 | Sextet | Ends at rehearsal E (m. 62) |
| 15:29 | "Anton Webern, Composer/Former Schönberg pupil," interview in living room next to a piano | |
| 15:51 | Photo of AS as a young man | op. 9 (beginning) |
| 16:00 | Ensemble intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez conducting | cont'd. |
| 16:48 | Webern | cont'd. |
| 17:00 | Berg | cont'd. |
| 17:15 | Ensemble | cont'd. |
| 17:35 | Alma Mahler | cont'd. |
| 17:54 | Photo of Gustav Mahler | cont'd. |
| 17:59 | Interview with Viktor Krüger in Cafe Sperl [?] | cont'd. |
| 18:15 | Ensemble | Ends at rehearsal 22 |
| 18:50 | Alma Mahler | |
| 19:08 | Photo of AS with students, voice-over | |
| 19:25 | "Roberto Gerhard, Composer/Schönberg pupil" | |
| 19:45 | "Hanns Eisler, Composer/Schönberg pupil," interview in Cafe Museum [?] | |
| 20:00 | "Salka Viertel, Friend of Schönberg," interview | |
| 20:19 | Webern | |
| 20:28 | "Piano Piece, op. 11-2," pianist Stefan Vladar | op. 11, no. 2 |
| 20:50 | "Alban Berg, Composer/Former Schönberg pupil," interview | cont'd. |
| 21:26 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 21:50 | Gerhard | cont'd. |
| 22:13 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 22:22 | Photo of AS with voice-over | cont'd. |
| 22:36 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 22:45 | Caricatures of AS, voice-overs of criticisms | cont'd. |
| 23:31 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 23:42 | Kruger | cont'd. |
| 24:09 | Pianist | Ends m. 28 |
| 25:00 | Wellesz | |
| 25:17 | Paintings by AS | op. 10, mvt. 4 (starting 4 bars before rehearsal 20) |
| 25:44 | Quartet and soprano Arleen Auger | cont'd. |
| 25:56 | Paintings/players | cont'd. |
| 26:34 | Mock footage of AS and family | cont'd. |
| 26:58 | Paintings/players | cont'd. |
| 27:25 | Footage | cont'd. |
| 27:42 | Paintings/players | cont'd. |
| 28:14 | Greissle | cont'd. |
| 28:30 | Mock footage of AS and Richard Gerstl | cont'd. |
| 28:58 | Photo of Traunstein | cont'd. |
| 29:05 | Greissle | cont'd. |
| 29:15 | Players/mock footage of Gerstl and Mathilde Schönberg | Ends 2 bars after 80 |
| 29:57 | "Viktor Kruger, Former Schönberg pupil," interview | |
| 30:37 | Gerstl self-portrait of grinning face | op. 16, mvt. 2 |
| 30:40 | Empty street | cont'd. |
| 31:00 | Kruger/paintings | cont'd. |
| 31:46 | Greissle | cont'd. |
| 32:00 | Kruger | cont'd. |
| 32:30 | Woods | cont'd. |
| 33:00 | Players | cont'd. |
| 33:12 | Mock footage of AS writing the Testamentsentwurf | cont'd. |
| 33:37 | Story of Mathilde and Gerstl, voice-overs by Greissle, AS, and Kruger cont'd. | cont'd. |
| 35:40 | Street musician playing hurdy-gurdy and singing "Oh, du lieber Augustin" | "Oh, du lieber Augustin" |
| 36:00 | Ferris wheel in Prater | cont'd. |
| 36:16 | Wellesz | cont'd. |
| 36:34 | Street scene/Kokoschka | cont'd. |
| 37:10 | Street musician | cont'd. |
| 37:40 | Street scene, market | End |
| 38:05 | "String Quartet 2, op. 10," Schönberg quartet | op. 10, mvt. 2 |
| 38:25 | Eisler | cont'd. |
| 38:29 | City scenes | cont'd. |
| 38:53 | Quartet | cont'd. |
| 38:59 | Eisler | cont'd. |
| 39:07 | Quartet/city scenes/AS voice-over | cont'd. |
| 40:49 | Erwin Stein | cont'd. |
| 41:28 | Quartet | Ends 1 bar after rehearsal 220 |
| 41:39 | Gerhard | |
| 41:53 | Stein | |
| 42:17 | Tilson Thomas and London SO | op. 16, mvt. 1 |
| 42:34 | Webern | cont'd. |
| 42:55 | "Orchestral Piece, op. 16-1" | cont'd. |
| 44:32 | Painting/photos/caricatures | End |
| 45:00 | "Wassily Kandinsky, Painter" | |
| 45:23 | Paintings/Kandinsky | |
| 46:58 | Staged version of Erwartung intercut with AS's paintings | Erwartung beginning at rehearsal 90) |
| 51:20 | Photo of AS | Ends at rehearsal 160 |
| 51:42 | Country scenes, mountains/mock footage of family | op. 16, mvt. 3 |
| 53:40 | Vienna, Karlskirche | cont'd. |
| 53:54 | AS's apartment (interior) | cont'd. |
| 54:00 | Wellesz | cont'd. |
| 54:13 | Mock footage of AS and Mathilde | End |
| 54:55 | Alma Mahler | |
| 55:13 | Cemetery, Mahler's funeral | |
| 55:49 | Pianist/Mahler's grave | op. 19, mvt. 6 |
| 56:30 | Wellesz/statues | cont'd. |
| 56:57 | Nationalbibliothek, Opera house, Parliament | |
| 57:20 | Vienna, streetcar line (now U6) | |
| 57:56 | Move to Berlin, street scenes | "Die Berliner Luft" |
| 58:41 | Photo of AS | |
| 58:57 | "Night from Pierrot lunaire, op. 21", ensemble conducted by Boulez | op. 21, no. 8 |
| 1:00:57 | Stein | |
| 1:01:37 | "Moon-Drunk from Pierrot lunaire, op. 21" | op. 21, no. 1 |
| 1:03:12 | Berg | |
| 1:03:40 | Musikverein (interior) | |
| 1:03:59 | Wellesz | |
| 1:04:18 | Nachod in the Musikverein | Gurre-Lieder (beginning at rehearsal 14) |
| 1:06:00 | Photo of Gurre-Lieder premiere | cont'd. |
| 1:06:32 | Nachod | Ends near rehearsal 18 |
| 1:06:45 | "Scandal Concert, March 13, 1913," ensemble conducted by Boulez | op. 9 (beginning at rehearsal 102) |
| 1:07:48 | Caricatures/ensemble | cont'd. (to end) |
| 1:09:15 | Paintings | |
| 1:09:26 | Wellesz | |
| 1:09:51 | War footage | |
| 1:10:08 | War photos | "Die eiserne Brigade" |
| 1:11:06 | Eisler | cont'd. |
| 1:11:24 | Footage/photos | cont'd. |
| 1:13:20 | "The Iron Brigade (1916) written by Arnold Schönberg for a troop party" | cont'd. |
| 1:14:00 | Country scenes, lake, mountains | End |
| 1:14:30 | Photo of AS | |
| 1:14:40 | Webern | |
| 1:15:00 | Mock footage of AS working on a score | op. 25, Prelude (mm. 1-16) |
| 1:15:46 | Pianist Stefan Vladar | op. 25, Intermezzo |
| 1:15:58 | Greissle | cont'd. |
| 1:16:19 | Mock footage of AS and students | cont'd. |
| 1:16:38 | Stein | cont'd. |
| 1:17:00 | Wellesz | cont'd. |
| 1:17:20 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 1:17:45 | Webern | cont'd. |
| 1:18:00 | Photo of AS | cont'd. |
| 1:18:09 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 1:18:31 | Mock footage of students | cont'd. |
| 1:18:57 | Pianist | cont'd. |
| 1:19:50 | Credits | op. 47 (mm. 7-33) |
| 1:22:20 | End | |
| Notes: | AS = Arnold Schönberg |
Cast
Voice of AS: Rudolf Wessely
Egon Wellesz: Hagnot Elischka
Anton Webern: Thomas Sigwald
Viktor Krüger: Erhard Pauer
Erwin Stein: Hannes Gastinger
Roberto Gerhard: Josef Bilous
Alban Berg: Florentin Groll
Alma Mahler: Isabella Gregor
Hans Nachod: Martin Suppan
Felix Greissle: Klaus Rohrmoser
Wassily Kandinsky: Hubert Kramar
Alexander Zemlinsky: Georg Trenkwitz
Hanns Eisler: Peter Faerber
Oskar Kokoschka: Werner Sobotka
Salka Viertel: Adeline Schebesch
David Josef Bach: Michael Bukowski
Arnold Schönberg's "Home Movies"
AS: Wolfgang Rau
Mathilde: Gabriele Simic
Trudi: Karin Kölbinger
Gerstl: Otto Reitsperger
Minister: Vater Miklas
Critic's Voices
Helmut Rost
Avril MacRory
Michael Dobson
Egon Gravenhorst
Gemma van Zeventer
Erich Winprechtinger
Strauss' Emperor Waltz
Emile Biessen - flute
Pierre Wandenberg - clarinet
Sepp Grotenhaus - piano
Schönberg Quartet
Verklärte Nacht, op. 4
Taco Kooistra - cello
Jan Erik van Regteren Altena - viola
Schönberg Quartet
String quartet no. 2, op. 10
Schönberg Quartet:
Janneke van der Meer - violin
Wim de Jong - violin
Henk Guittart - viola
Viola de Hoog - cello
Arleen Auger - soprano
Five Orchestra Pieces, op. 16 (I, II, III)
Michael Tilson Thomas and Oliver Knussen, cond.
London Symphony Orchestra
Six little Piano Pieces, op. 19 (1, 4, 6)
Stefan Vladar
Pierrot lunaire, op. 21
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain
Marianne Pousseur - Sprechstimme
Erwartung, op. 17
Janice Watson, soprano
Oliver Knussen, conductor
London SO
Gurre-Lieder
Martin Suppan, tenor
Oliver Knussen, cond.
London SO
"The Iron Brigade"
Schönberg Quartet
Sepp Grotenhuis - piano
Phantasy, op. 47
Janneke van der Meer - violin
Marja Bon - piano
"Oh, du lieber Augustin"
Dr. Eberhard Kummer - hurdy-gurdy
"Die Berliner Luft" von "Frau Luna"
Paul Lincke
Credits
| Director: Larry Weinstein |
| Producers: Niv Fichman, Larry Weinstein |
| Editor: David New |
| Associate Director: Thomas S. Wallner |
| Director of Photography: Horst Zeidler |
| Sound by: Onno Scholtze, Philips Classics |
| Lighting: Franz Morgenstern |
| Camera: Rolf Schmitt, Gerhard Fleischer |
| Written by: Larry Weinstein, Thomas Wallner |
| Associate Producers: Sheena MacDonald, Barbara Willis Sweete |
| Special Thanks to: Nuria Nono-Schönberg, Ronald Schönberg, Lawrence Schönberg |
| Television Distribution: Sheena MacDonald, Rhombus International |
| Produced by: Rhombus Media, ZDF-German Television, in association with The British Broadcasting Corporation, RTP-Portugal, and La Sept, TVOntario, ORF, NOS, DRS, BRT, YLE, SVT, Philips Classics Productions |