1. The importance of visual arts in Schoenberg
... gets more excited *** 4th piece***** 5th piece***** Erwartung Erwartung, means Expectation, which, logically, is to be rewarded with "Fulfilment". Klimt presents these two ideals in his Stoclet friezes. Schoenberg, however, twisted this; in Erwartung, the Woman, lost in a forest, searches for her lover ("Expectation"); at the end of the piece, she finds his corpse (Fulfilment). This dramatic monologue was written at white heat ... a change of colour in a deep, dismal chord" In a letter to Emil Hertzka, the director of Universal Editions, regarding a projected film version (which was neve...
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