The Arnold Schönberg Center manages the estate of Viennese Modernism's famous composer. He was also a music theorist, poet, inventor and painter. On show are exhibitions of his life and work, a selection of his artistic creations and the authentically detailed replica of his study in Los Angeles. In a video, Schönberg's daughter Nuria explains the relationship her father had to the personal objects and creations in the room.

The library of the Arnold Schönberg Center has lots on the topic of the "Viennese School of Modernism" - including the group of composers that formed around Arnold Schönberg in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. Important protagonists were Schönberg's pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Their influence on the development of New Music was immense.

Is it not the duty of every artist
to tell your what you do not know,
what you never have heard before,
what you never could find out
or discover or express yourself?

(Arnold Schönberg: What Have People to Expect from Music, 1935)

The archive, which is also open to the public, has around 20,000 pages of music and text manuscripts as well as diaries, concert programs, instruments and much more besides. Amongst the 3,500 photographs: Man Ray's Schönberg portrait, shots with Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin.

Since 13 September 2020, the 146th birthday of the universal artist Arnold Schönberg, the Arnold Schloenberg Center has been providing insights into the collection's holdings with a series of over 160 objects on Google Arts & Culture.

Schoenberg information from the Vienna Tourist Board. Read more here.