ErwartungArnold Shoenburg
AnticipationShoenburg’s first work for the stage30-minute MonodramaWritten for single SopranoMusical MonologueTakes over 2 weeks to composePsychoanalysisStory- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCQk5toHS9c&feature=relatedIn the end, the audience decides
HistoryWork completed Autumn 1909. ErsteNiederschrift (continuity draft in short score)completed 12 Septemberfinal draft (fair copy) of score on 4 Octoberlate 1909- arrangements with ArturBodanskyfirst performance in Mannheim in the Spring of 1910premier not given until 1924 in Prague.  No performance, no publicationfinally published in 1923- piano arrangementdisappeared for a while, favoring a simpler arrangement now in private hands
Crayon, pastel and watercolor on paper  (Stage settings)
TonalityFree non-tonal languageNOT 12-tone (pre-12 tone)Embodiment of ExpressionismExceeds in tonal and contrapuntal complexity almost anything composed up to that timeOrchestra of 100 playersJessye Norman:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErXOMu7DW8
LibrettoMaria PappenheimBorn 1882 in CzechoslovakiaCommissioned in 1909Die FrauStream-of-consciousness Was already considering writing the work before Shoenburg approached her
Anna O. Sister Bertha PappenheimPhychoanalysis  “catharsis” Talking cureBruerFirst Freud HystericAnna O.?Recovers- author, playwright, spokesperson for women’s and Jewish rights. Short, Fragmented SpeechRepetitiveShouting/Mute
BibilographyDiscourses in Music: Volume 3 Number 2 (Winter 2001-2002)Schoenberg's Erwartung and Freudian Case Histories: A Preliminary Investigation1By Alexander Carpenter. http://www.discourses.ca/v3n2a1.htmlShoenburg’s Sketch http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/painting/stagesethtms/ritter216.htmGerman 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. 

Erwartung

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    AnticipationShoenburg’s first workfor the stage30-minute MonodramaWritten for single SopranoMusical MonologueTakes over 2 weeks to composePsychoanalysisStory- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCQk5toHS9c&feature=relatedIn the end, the audience decides
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    HistoryWork completed Autumn1909. ErsteNiederschrift (continuity draft in short score)completed 12 Septemberfinal draft (fair copy) of score on 4 Octoberlate 1909- arrangements with ArturBodanskyfirst performance in Mannheim in the Spring of 1910premier not given until 1924 in Prague.  No performance, no publicationfinally published in 1923- piano arrangementdisappeared for a while, favoring a simpler arrangement now in private hands
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    Crayon, pastel andwatercolor on paper (Stage settings)
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    TonalityFree non-tonal languageNOT12-tone (pre-12 tone)Embodiment of ExpressionismExceeds in tonal and contrapuntal complexity almost anything composed up to that timeOrchestra of 100 playersJessye Norman:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErXOMu7DW8
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    LibrettoMaria PappenheimBorn 1882in CzechoslovakiaCommissioned in 1909Die FrauStream-of-consciousness Was already considering writing the work before Shoenburg approached her
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    Anna O. SisterBertha PappenheimPhychoanalysis “catharsis” Talking cureBruerFirst Freud HystericAnna O.?Recovers- author, playwright, spokesperson for women’s and Jewish rights. Short, Fragmented SpeechRepetitiveShouting/Mute
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    BibilographyDiscourses in Music:Volume 3 Number 2 (Winter 2001-2002)Schoenberg's Erwartung and Freudian Case Histories: A Preliminary Investigation1By Alexander Carpenter. http://www.discourses.ca/v3n2a1.htmlShoenburg’s Sketch http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/painting/stagesethtms/ritter216.htmGerman 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.