Arnold Schönberg Center
Statement of Purpose

The Foundation is a cultural institution designed exclusively for public scholarly and educational purposes under the terms of §501 (c) (3) of the US Internal Revenue Code and its amended version of 1986.

The purposes of the Foundation include establishing the Arnold Schönberg Archive in Vienna, its maintenance and preservation, the education of the public with regard to Schönberg's interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as teaching and publicizing Schönberg's contributions to music and other achievements.

The purposes of the Foundation shall be achieved by:

Transferring the Arnold Schönberg Institute and the complete contents thereof from the University of Southern California to the premises of the Foundation (in Vienna) and the use thereof for the purposes set forth herein, as well as the acquisition and preservation of other materials that relate to Arnold Schönberg;

Making the Schönberg estate accessible and available for scholarly study and research by scholars, composers, musicians, and the general public;

Encouraging public understanding of music theory, particularly the style and methods of Arnold Schönberg;

Teaching, researching, and further educating musicians, scholars, and the public at large, in cooperation with the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, as well as with other research and teaching institutions, insofar as these educational activities are related to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg;

Distributing, providing access to, and furthering understanding of interdisciplinary works of Schönberg for the public at large as well as the scholarly and musical communities;

Cataloguing and scholarly application of the archival and research materials relating to Arnold Schönberg, and the making available of finding aids in written, electronic and other forms by means of the latest technologies (especially in cooperation with the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, the Vienna Stadt- und Landesarchiv, the Austrian National Library, as well as other archives and libraries);

Regular organization of exhibitions, concerts, and other events, without respect to geographical location, so long as these events are related to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg;

Holding symposia and conferences that are devoted to the life and to the work of Arnold Schönberg;

Analyzing the most recent artistic trends that relate to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg; Regularly awarding an international Arnold Schönberg prize;

Regularly awarding Arnold Schönberg scholarships for research projects that relate to the life and to the work of Arnold Schönberg;

Cooperating with the Arnold Schönberg Gesamtausgabe, as well as with the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift; Cooperating internationally with orchestras, museums, schools, universities, publishing houses, festivals, and similar organizations, so long as such cooperation is related to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg;

Exhibiting the paintings and drawings by Arnold Schönberg, which may be made available to the Foundation by other owners as long-term loan.