Gloriettegasse 43, Vienna, 13th district
Alser Straße 32, Vienna, 13th district
Rechte Bahngasse 10, 13th district
October 1915 – September 1917
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"As early as next week (around 9 September) we are moving to the 13th district in Vienna, Gloriettegasse 43, where Mrs. Lieser has provided us with an apartment. We made the decision quite suddenly, as usual." (Schönberg to Zemlinsky, 3 September 1915) Upon Schönberg’s return from Berlin, where he had given a series of lectures on "Aesthetics and the Teaching of Musical Elocution" at the Stern Conservatory and also taught privately, a friend of Alma Mahler, Silvia "Lilly" Lieser, provided him an |
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| apartment at no expense in her villa at Gloriettegasse 43. Disagreements with her finally encouraged Schönberg’s relocation to Pension Astra, Alser Straße 32, where the family lodged from 1 October to 10 November 1917. "In the first place there is nothing to be done concerning Mrs. Lieser because what she does for me (we felt, we have even known it for a long time) is too much, although she has 20 million and I am probably her only charity case of this sort. She is enormously stingy and dirty. But then: we would want nothing more to do with this person at any price [...] Nothing happened. She simply behaved so offensively the entire time that one could not endure it. She worked long and hard to force us to give notice." (letter to Zemlinsky from 29 August 1917) "I have decided, when looking for an apartment to let, not to mention my profession, but rather to call myself a ‘theory professor at the Schwarzwald School’." (letter to Webern from 29 August 1917) In the fall of 1917 Schönberg again offered a "Seminar in Composition" at the Schwarzwald Schools – newly designed by Adolf Loos – at Wallnerstraße 9, temporarily letting an apartment at Rechte Bahngasse 10 (November 1917–March 1918). The move to the house in Mödling, where Schönberg would reside until his third and last stay in Berlin, had first been planned at the beginning of 1918: on 6 January of that year Lilly Lieser requested Schönberg to vacate the apartment by the 20th of the month, as she wished to sell the house. Schönberg replied: "Most revered Madam, it was planned to vacate the apartment by 10 January, but snow has held up the movers […]." On 5 February 1918 Schönberg reported to Alma Mahler: "We arrived from Mödling yesterday, where we got the apartment halfway in order in just about four days. Now we are completely rid of Gloriettegasse." | ||
