Library of the Arnold Schönberg Center
The library database of the Arnold Schönberg Center contains approximately 5300 bibliographic entries about the Viennese School, Arnold Schönberg and his works.
Library holdings
How to use the catalogue
Scores (HTML-Dokument)
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Schönberg’s Library
At the time of its acquisition by the Arnold Schönberg Institute (University of Southern California Los Angeles), the legacy of Arnold Schönberg contained 728 monographic titles. Many of these books have annotations in the margins by Schönberg.
Schönberg himself prepared a catalog to his library. This catalog, which also included scores, lists about 600 hundred volumes (of a total today of approximately 2,000 volumes) and was compiled in 1918. Volumes acquired between 1918 and Schönberg’s death in 1951 were not listed anywhere by Schönberg. His catalog consisted of two parts: Numerical Accession Lists (about 38 pages long) and an alphabetical Author List (145 pages).
Inventory of annotated books in Arnold Schönberg’s legacy (PDF-Dokument)
Inventory of annotated periodicals in Arnold Schönberg’s legacy (PDF-Dokument)
Inventoriy of music supplies in Arnold Schönberg’s legacy (PDF-Dokument)
Alphabetically arranged list of all books in Schönberg´s library:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
