Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1871 October 14 | Born in Vienna, Austria, and raised in a Jewish family |
| circa 1875 | Began playing piano |
| 1884-1892 | Studied piano with Anton Door, harmony and counterpoint with Franz Krenn and Robert Fuchs, and composition with Johann Nepomuk Fuchs and Anton Bruckner at the Vienna Conservatory |
| 1893 | Performed his Symphony in D minor at a concert in Vienna, attended by Johannes Brahms |
| 1895-1896 | Conducted the orchestra Polyhymnia, in which Schoenberg played cello |
| 1895-1897 | Taught Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) |
| 1896 | Clarinet Trio, op. 3, published by Nikolaus Simrock at Brahm's recommendation |
| 1900 | Opera Es war einmal... premiered by Gustav Mahler at the Vienna Hofoper |
| 1900 | Entered into a brief romantic relationship with his student Alma Schindler, who married Gustav Mahler in 1902 |
| 1900-1904 | Served as Kapellmeister at both the Carltheater and the Theater and der Wien in Vienna |
| 1901 October | His sister Mathilde Zemlinsky (1877-1973) married Arnold Schoenberg |
| 1903 | Taught Alban Berg and Anton Webern at the Schwarzwald School |
| 1904-1905 | Co-founded the Vereinigung schaffender Tonkünstler (Society for Creative Musicians) with Schoenberg for the promotion and performance of new music |
| 1906-1907 | Conducted the Volksoper in Vienna |
| 1905 January 25 | World premiere of his orchestral fantasy Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) in Vienna, during a concert at which Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande was also first performed |
| 1907-1908 | Conducted the Vienna Hopofer with Mahler |
| 1907 | Married Ida Guttmann (died 1929) |
| 1908 | Reappointed conductor at the Volksoper in Vienna |
| 1910-1913 | Composed Sechs Gesänge (Six Songs), op. 13, with texts by Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 1911-1927 | Appointed Music Director at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic) |
| 1920 | Appointed head of the Deutsche Akademie für Musik und Bildende Kunst in Prague |
| 1923 | Guest conducted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 1924 June 6 | Conducted the world premiere of Schoenberg's Erwartung at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Prague |
| 1922-1923 | Composed Lyrische Symphonie (Lyric Symphony), op. 18 |
| 1927-1931 | Served as Kapellmeister at the Kroll Oper in Berlin |
| 1930 | Married his student, Louise Sachsel Converted to Protestantism |
| 1931 December | Conducted the Berlin premiere of Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny |
| 1933 | Moved to Vienna due to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and worked as a composer and guest conductor Severed ties with Schoenberg due to differring views towards the twelve-tone composition technique and Schoenberg's conversion back to Judaism |
| 1938 September | Moved to New York via Prague after the Anschluss of Austria |
| 1945 March 15 | Died in Larchmont, New York, having had little professional success the United States |