1913 oratorios

thumb|upright=1.2|Ruins of Gurre Castle, 2007 '''''''' (Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra. The work, which is based on an early song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano, was composed by the then-Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1900 to 1903. After a break, he resumed orchestration in 1910 and completed it in November 1911. It sets to music the poem cycle Gurresange'' by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by ).