Arnold Schönberg and summer retreat antisemitism in the Salzkammergut
Online memorial exhibition
Harmonielehre
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Harmonielehre
Arnold Schönberg to his publisher
7 June 1921
Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
Schönberg’s work on the third edition of Harmonielehre progressed quickly. He announced the first dispatch to Vienna very soon after his arrival in Mattsee:
“Enclosed submission pages 225-240 with new text and new musical examples print and engrave[.]”
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
Introduction
This year’s tourist season in Mattsee
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Heinrich Schönberg with his wife Berta and his daughter Margit
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Come visit me
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Villa Nora
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It’s lovely here
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Harmonielehre
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A popular vacation destination
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Arrogance and Oriental Allures
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Row-boating
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Summer retreat free of Jews
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He is in good humor
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Heil Salzburg! Salzburg wants the Anschluss!
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How are you and yours in Mattsee?
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You will be pleased with me
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Kaiser-Elisabeth-Bahn
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Convivial gatherings
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Antisemitic scandals
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For rent to Aryans
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Disharmony
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Away with the Jews!
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They are doing well there
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Arnold Schönberg: Felix Greissle
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Arnold Schönberg: Harmonielehre
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Arnold Schönberg: the theory of coherence
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It must be splendid there
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I am not staying a day longer
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Threat in his own house
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Anti-Jewish proclamations
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The composer’s baptismal certificate
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Arnold Schönberg: on Zemlinsky
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The Jewish colony in Mattsee
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That outrageous, incredible thing
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The community physician
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An Aryan summer vacationer
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A summer retreat free of Jews
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Einstein’s propaganda speech
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The revolting press notice
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Sedition
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Antisemitic racial attitude
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All is calm within me
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Imaginary and material damage
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Guests of Max Ott
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Guests of Max Ott
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Arrival in Traunkirchen
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Departure
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Very ugly at the end
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Domestic and foreign newspapers
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Villa Josef
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Arnold and Mathilde Schönberg
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Shaken awake
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Such circumstances
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Arnold Schönberg: Baroness Löwenthal
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Traunkirchen
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Arnold Schönberg: Prelude
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A ridiculous matter
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Hegemony in the sphere of music
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