CIOMPI QUARTET
MODERATION Ulrike Anton I Director of the Arnold Schönberg Centre Vienna and
Gerold Gruber I Founder of exil.arte and director of the Exilarte Centre
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874-1951) String Quartet No. 4 op. 37
WOLFGANG FRAENKEL (1905-2010) Music for String Quartet (1949)
Arnold Schönberg and Wolfgang Fraenkel are historically linked: two progressive Jewish composers who fled Europe with the rise of the Nazis. Schönberg came to the USA, while the younger Fraenkel spent eight years in Shanghai, where he was an important teacher and cultural force. This concert compares these two strong personalities through two of their string quartets. Fraenkel's quartet contains a dedication to the much-admired Schoenberg.
