Die glückliche Hand
Music by Arnold Schoenberg · libretto by Arnold Schoenberg · premiered 1924
Die glückliche Hand (The Lucky Hand, 1909–1913), Op. 18, is a four-scene opera or "Drama with Music in One Act" by Arnold Schoenberg to his own libretto. Like Erwartung (Expectation, 1909), it drew on Otto Weininger's book Sex and Character and reflected Schoenberg's own life, perhaps including his sense of artistic mission, audience reception, wife's affair, or some combination. It conveys the idea that man repeats his mistakes. The Vienna Volksoper premiered it on 24 October 1924.
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About the Composer
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, teacher, and writer who propounded developing variation and the emancipation of the dissonance. He worked in Vienna and Berlin, and taught at the Prussian Academy of Arts (1925–1933). Facing Nazi Germany's civil-service restrictions, he resigned and defiantly reaffirmed his Judaism, then immigrated to the United States, teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944), where facilities bear his name. His early works like Verklärte Nacht (1899) and Gurre-Lieder (1900–1903, orch. 1910–1911) represented a synthesis of Johannes Brahms and Richard…
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Other Operas by Arnold Schoenberg
- Erwartung (1909)