Arnold Schönberg and summer retreat antisemitism in the Salzkammergut
Online memorial exhibition
Convivial gatherings
Object #16
Convivial gatherings
Cort van der Linden
ca. 1924
Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
“1921 May-Sept. Mattsee, Traunkirchen […] my world is secured if my aspiration is as high as Schönberg’s.”
Visitors from near and far turned up in Mattsee during the days and weeks after Schönberg arrived at the summer retreat: cousin Olga Nachod with her husband Carl Pascotini and pupils Felix Greissle, Cort van der Linden, Josef Polnauer, Fritz Kaltenborn and Othmar Steinbauer. Rudolf Mengelberg, Josef Rufer and Helene Berg, who was taking the cure in Hofgastein (she later cancelled her visit), were also loosely announced. Due to the continuous theater season at the New German Theater in Prague, the arrival of Heinrich Schönberg and Alexander Zemlinsky, the theater’s musical director, was not expected until mid July. Conductor Artur Bodanzky and his wife Ada, arrived in Europe from New York, intended to make a side trip to the Salzburg province in August.
Cf. Therese Muxeneder: Arnold Schönbergs Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus (III), in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16/2019. Edited by Eike Feß and Therese Muxeneder. Wien 2019, p. 165–254