Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) is an oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg that marks his transition from a contextual or free atonality to the twelve-tone technique anticipated in the oratorio's use of hexachords. Though ultimately unfinished by Schoenberg the piece was prepared for performance by Schoenberg student Winfried Zillig at the request of Gertrude Schoenberg.
Date of composition | 1922 (1917-1922) |
Premiered | 1958, January 12th in Hamburg, Germany |
First published | Universal Edition |
Type | Oratorio |
Tonality | Twelve-tone |
Approx. duration | 45 minutes |
Instruments |
Other
- Performers
Chorus/Choir Orchestra |
Autotranslations beta |
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