This year, Flagey celebrates the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg with a weekend filled with exceptional concerts and artists. Schönberg was a musical visionary who captured the unique spirit of his era. Rooted in Romanticism, his musical ideas continue to be a vital source of inspiration in the 20th-century repertoire.
Immerse yourself in the world of Arnold Schönberg with the inspiring collection of content below.
The majority of Schönberg’s music is now more than a century old. In 2024, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. And yet his name alone still tends to elicit visceral reactions. It is something that Schönberg had always faced. In his lifetime, he received many extremely nasty reactions from the audience. Why is that?
Pierrot lunaire is based on poems by Belgian poet Albert Giraud, later adapted by Otto Erich Hartleben and set to music by Arnold Schönberg. Commissioned by Albertine Zehme, known for blending poetry and music, Schönberg’s iconic work became the first composition written entirely for Sprechgesang, a unique style that sits between singing and spoken word. Read the poems and translation!
from scores to brushes: we know Arnold Schönberg as a groundbreaking composer, educator, and theorist, but also as a painter - find out more
Discover these Schönberg-inspired scores with the curated film selection by film journalist Robin Broos.
"My Verklärte Nacht, written before the beginning of this century–hence a work of my first period, has made me a kind of reputation." Read the article How One Becomes Lonely by Arnold Schönberg (2 October 1937).