Schönberg House Mödling

Today, the Schönberg house in Mödling is often called the “cradle of the 12-tone method,” since Arnold Schönberg first presented his “Method of composing with twelve tones related only to one another” in Bernhardgasse to a close circle of friends and pupils. He composed the Five Piano Pieces, op. 23, the Serenade, op. 24, the Suite for Piano, op. 25 and the Wind Quintet, op. 26 during long stretches of his summer holiday, completing them in Mödling. “The apartment was located on the first floor and consisted of a number of rooms. Eventually father remodeled the bathroom and the entrance hall, and glassed in the Veranda himself. He had his own study, where there was a piano, a harmonium, violins, a viola and a cello, as well as his entire library and a desk; he worked at a standing desk.” (Georg Schönberg, 1971)