On 9 December 1911, Arnold Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden für gemischten Chor a cappella (Opus 11) was premiered at Vienna’s Großer Musikvereins-Saal under the baton of Franz Schrecker. The text is drawn from a Christmas poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. … Continue reading →
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:43AM on December 24, 2012