Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Vienna] Aug. 8 1910, to Max Oppenheimer, 1910 Aug. 8.

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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Oppenheimer, Max, 1885-1954

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With the Anschluss in 1938 Oppenheimer fled Vienna to Switzerland; he emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, where he lived in New York City. He had apparently known Franz Werfel, and perhaps also Alma Mahler, before their emigration. He mentions having done drawings of Werfel around 1914, of which he had recently acquired reproductions. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944-1945. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864090 ...