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Arnold Schönberg: on Zemlinsky
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Arnold Schönberg: on Zemlinsky
Mattsee, 1 July 1921
Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
While he was in Mattsee, Schönberg wrote a short statement about Alexander Zemlinsky, his brother-in-law, composer and conductor, for Der Auftakt magazine.
“The very sagacious will have to deduct the following if they wish to exactly determine the value my verdict on Zemlinsky can have for their general public: he was my teacher, I became his friend, later his brother-in-law, and during the many years gone by since then, he has been the one whose behavior I try to imagine when I need advice. Hence my verdict is conditional (upon a good and permanent imagination) and I am biased (by a preference for advantages which have grown since I learned to appreciate them).”
Cf. Therese Muxeneder: Arnold Schönbergs Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus (III), in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16/2019. Edited by Eike Feß and Therese Muxeneder. Wien 2019, p. 165–254