How did audiences react to the first performance of Gurrelieder?

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Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room. — Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential teachers of music composition of the 20th century. He also was known for his creation of new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row.

The first performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder in Vienna on February 23, 1913, was met with wild enthusiasm by the audience. Despite this positive reception, Schoenberg, who had become embittered by his previous experiences, was unable to appreciate or acknowledge the crowd's reaction.1