Nuria Schoenberg Nono paints a portrait of Arnold Schönberg the family man, which is radically different from the familiar image of Schönberg the twelve-tone revolutionary. An interview by Max Nyffeler.
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Nuria Schoenberg Nono, you were born in 1932, and just two years later your parents emigrated to America to escape the Nazis. You spent your childhood and youth in Los Angeles. What was your experience of your father then, in public and in private?
He was hardly known to the general public. We were emigrants, and his music was foreign to the Americans. In Los Angeles, someone might say to him: “Ah, I know who you are. You are the father of Ronny, who won the tennis tournament.” Granted, he was a professor at the university, but he was no god. In Europe, it was different. When I went to Hamburg in 1954 for the posthumous premiere of his opera Moses und Aron, I experienced the strangest things. People came up to me and said, “Oh, you’re Schönberg’s daughter. May I touch you?”
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