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' (''Expectation''), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by . Composed in 1909, it was not premiered until 6 June 1924 in Prague conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as the soprano. The opera takes the unusual form of a monologue for solo soprano accompanied by a large orchestra. In performance, it lasts for about half an hour. It is sometimes paired with Béla Bartók's opera ''Bluebeard's Castle'' (1911), as the two works were roughly contemporary and share similar psychological themes. Schoenberg's succinct description of ' was as follows: In ' the aim is to represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, stretching it out to half an hour.〔Schoenberg, Arnold. ''Style and Idea''. University of California Press (Los Angeles, 1984), p. 105 (ISBN 0-520-05294-3)〕 Philip Friedheim has described ' as Schoenberg's "only lengthy work in an athematic style", where no musical material returns once stated over the course of 426 measures. In his analysis of the structure, one indication of the complexity of the music is that the first scene of over 30 bars contains 9 meter changes and 16 tempo changes. Herbert Buchanan has countered this description of the work as "athematic", and the general impression of it as "atonal", in his own analysis. The musicologist Charles Rosen has said that ', along with Berg's ''Wozzeck'' and Stravinsky's ''The Rite of Spring'', is among the "impregnable" "great monuments of modernism." == Performance history == ' had its British premiere on 9 January 1931, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.〔(Nicholas Chadwick, ''Alban Berg and the BBC'' )〕 It was the first live opera shown on Times Square in New York City in a production by Robin Rhode in November 2015 (2 performances).〔("Arnold Schönberg's ''Erwartung'' – A Performance by Robin Rhode" ), Times Square Arts〕〔("Robin Rhode Takes Schoenberg’s ''Erwartung'' to the Street (Broadway, No Less)" ) by Zachary Woolfe, ''The New York Times'', 8 November 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erwartung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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