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War-clouds diary

Arnold Schoenberg, “War-Clouds Diary 1914,” edited, commented, and translated into English by Paul A. Pisk, in Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, vol. IX, no. 1, June 1986, pp. 53–77.
9/24/1914 My “sky vs. battles” World War I entries started, daily with one gap.
6/26/1915 My final diary entry. I used words like “pretty/gorgeous, overcast cloudburst,
battleclouds/battalions”
9/24/1914 “Repeatedly I notice that ‘golden glitter,’ victory-wind,’ a ‘deep blue sky,’ ‘bloody
clouds’ (at sunset) always preceded victorious German events.”
6/27/1915 “8:50 p.m. after sunset the following sword is visible in the sky (cloud
formation)”
The Farmer’s Almanac might be the closest and more current example of a similar practice of combining stories and emotions to nature.
I was 42 and had to leave many works and ideas unfinished. An officer even asked me if if I was the “notorious Schoenberg.” This is me in the Austro-Hungarian army (bottom row, second from right). I was enlisted from December 1915-October 1916, then during the fall of 1917.
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It is perhaps correct that one must be religious in order to compose church music, or in love in order to compose love songs […], but still one must certainly not be wounded in order to portray a wounded person or dying in order to portray a dying person. And so it would certainly be possible to compose a peace hymn without believing in an eternal peace.”
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In May 1928, Schönberg penned an essay (together with Richard Strauss, Julius Bittner and Felix Weingartner) for the “8 o’clock Evening Paper” (“8-Uhr-Abendblatt”) on the theme “Does the world lack a hymn of peace?” (“Fehlt der Welt eine Friedenshymne?”)