Arnold Schoenberg Centre on fire in Vienna
mainFire at the Palais Fanto prompted an urgent evacuation of the Arnold Schoenberg museum last night. At least 20 people worked through the night to extract the composer’s manuscripts and artefacts.
The Schoenberg family reports: ‘Most vulnerable items have been relocated to a secure safe place. Water has been coming into the library.’
The cause of the fire is unknown. The centre will be closed for months of restoration.
The Schoenberg Museum was transferred from California to Vienna in 1998.
==His son, Larry Schoenberg, reports:
Hang on, isn’t Larry dead ? See:
http://schoenberginstitute.org/2014/05/15/remembering-sims-founder-larry-schoenberg/
Hmmmm… must be a younger Larry. tks.
And so what? Slippedisc has connections anywhere!
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This mistake keeps happening. A sifferent Lawrence (Larry) Schoenberg did indeed die in 2014. I have seen stories where he has been called the son of Arnold Schoenberg, which he was not.
I’ve met Larry a couple of times. He’s not dead. He’s the youngest of Schoenberg’s sons.
A much loved concert venue as well.
It must have been a case of spontaneous combustion.
Schoenberg is dead.
Boulez is bedridden.
Good alibi.
Otherwise…
I hope it isn’t arson.