In 1895, Schönberg met the composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky. A deep friendship developed through their joint music-making in the amateur orchestra “Polyhymnia.” Schönberg would later acknowledge that he owed “most of my knowledge of the technique and the problems of composing” to Zemlinsky, who was only a few years his senior. Baritone Dietrich Henschel, one of the leading Schönberg interpreters of our time, together with pianist Arno Waschk, traces the development of these two protagonists of modernism through their Lieder. It is an opportunity to discover what connects and what separates the two composers!

January 15, 2025 | 6.30 pm | Arnold Schönberg Center
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