Background
Schoenberg was born in Karlovy Vary, and raised in Vienna, the daughter of Henriette Anna Theresia (Hoffmann) and Rudolf Rafael Kolisch, a prominent physician and Dozent at the University.
Schoenberg was born in Karlovy Vary, and raised in Vienna, the daughter of Henriette Anna Theresia (Hoffmann) and Rudolf Rafael Kolisch, a prominent physician and Dozent at the University.
She wrote the libretto for Schoenberg"s one-act opera Von heute auf morgen under the pseudonym Max Blonda. At her request Schoenberg"s (ultimately unfinished) piece, Die Jakobsleiter was prepared for performance by Schoenberg"s student Winfried Zillig. Arnold used the notes G and East♭ (German: Es, ie, "South") for "Gertrud Schoenberg", in the Suite, for septet, Operation
29 (1925).
Her grandson is lawyer East. Randol Schoenberg.