Analysis of the Four Orchestral Songs Opus 22

Abstract

ing January, 1932, he received Rosbaud's invitation to deliver a lecture in connection with the prospective performance of the Op. 22 Songs over the Frankfurt radio. Schoenberg was anxious to accept-and curious, of course, to hear his Op. 22 for the first time-but had severe misgivings about the effect that the trip northward might have on his illness. The three published letters to Rosbaud from this time (dated January 19, January 30, and February 13, 1932) are full of vacillations, hoping in one sentence that he might yet take the trip, and realizing in the next that he cannot go. Schoenberg says, also, that the Frankfurt station cannot be heard in Barcelona. In the letter of