Arnold Schönberg: Beginning of a movement for wind quintet and piano
July 20, 1914
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Two openings of movements for wind quintet and piano drafted while in the midst of an idyllic countryside originated around the time when Schönberg composed the Four Orchestral Songs, op. 22. Technically, the beginning of the movement on display here seems to draw on the structure of the melodrama Expectation, op. 17 – a sequence of “moment forms.”