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 Arnold Schönberg: Die Jakobsleiter
Arnold Schönberg: Die Jakobsleiter
Arnold Schönberg: Die Jakobsleiter