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1909
20.0 x 33.0 cm
Arnold Schönberg Center
Discover Arnold Schoenberg’s innovative 'Music Typewriter' (1909) – a complex mechanical blueprint showcasing his visionary design & engineering talent. A rare technical illustration.
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Explore Arnold Schoenberg's revolutionary music – atonality, twelve-tone technique & influence on 20th-century composers. Discover his legacy at the Schönberg Center.
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Music Typewriter
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The music typewriter is based on the principle of a mechanical typewriter, it has a keyboard, levers which bear the type, and an ink ribbon. In order to be able to write scores with all the necessary characters, however, Schönberg had to extend and change the conventional design. The paper is not inserted into a roller, and a flat surface serves as a writing surface. It can be moved from left to right, upwards and downwards, turned in a circle around a midpoint and can also be tilted. In this way, every section of the writing surface can be reached with the utmost precision. Tilting is necessary because Schönberg designed the print head with a trapezoidal cross section in order to fit three characters on the type bars, and in order to keep the number of type bars – which is still an impressive 120 – within a reasonable limit. If operated electrically, several of these typewriters could be connected with each other. An expert typist, Schönberg believed, could produce small volumes of sheet music within a shorter amount of time, at lower cost and with a clearer print image than was previously possible. With an electric motor and reinforced type bars, the machine could also be used for music engraving and in principle, if the design were altered, as a scribing machine as well. In April 1909 Schönberg submitted the patent specification which was not queried in principle, although several details were commented upon. His design seems intricate and the complexity of the key characters and dual functions requires the typist’s utmost concentration. However, this piece of equipment is anything but a technical fantasy or a fictitious machine. Arnold Schönberg’s music typewriter dated 1909 was never realised, but the designs show an enormous amount of imagination and mechanical talent.
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An ochre to sepia hue runs through "Music Typewriter" by Arnold Schoenberg.
Artist Biography
early life and musical beginnings
arnold schoenberg, an austrian-american composer, was born on september 13, 1874, in vienna, austria. his early life was marked by a humble beginning, with his father being a shoe-shopkeeper. despite this, schoenberg's innate passion for music led him to largely self-educate himself in the field.- schoenberg explored film music and wrote more tonal music, completing his chamber symphony no. 2 in 1939.
- he satirized fascist tyrants in ode to napoleon (1942), after byron.
- post-war vienna offered him honorary citizenship, but he was ill, as depicted in his string trio (1946).
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 - 1951 , Austria
Quick Facts
- Full Name: Arnold Schoenberg
- Nationality: Austrian-American
- Date Of Birth: 1874
- Date Of Death: 1951
- Place Of Birth: Vienna, Austria
- Notable Artworks:
- Suite, op. 29
- Music Typewriter
- Staffliner
- Artistic Movement Or Style: Twelve-tone technique; Expressionism
- Artists Who Influenced This Artist:
- Johannes Brahms
- Richard Wagner
- Artists Or Movements Influenced By This Artist:
- Anton Webern
- Alban Berg
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