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1 day ago · Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg[ a ] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence.
Sep 9, 2024 · Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row. He was also one of the most-influential teachers of the 20th century; among his most-significant pupils were Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
Sep 13, 2024 · From 1908 onwards, he started challenging the traditional boundaries of tonality, which has been the dominating principle in most Western music since the 17th century and which...
Sep 5, 2024 · Even Stravinsky, Schoenberg’s greatest rival, began composing 12-tone pieces in the 1950s. Key changes. Yet as Schoenberg’s influence grew, the popularity of new classical music started to shrink.
Sep 9, 2024 · Arnold Schoenberg - 12-Tone, Expressionism, Atonality: Until that period all of Schoenberg’s works had been strictly tonal; that is, each of them had been in a specific key, centred upon a specific tone. However, as his harmonies and melodies became more complex, tonality became of lesser importance.
Sep 15, 2024 · It was composed when his engagement with a diversity of art practices and media fused with processes of highly spontaneous, rapid composition that relied upon intuition and inspiration–a modus operandi that would become increasingly elusive to him with the passing of time:
Sep 11, 2024 · Over the course of this week, Kate Molleson explores the twists and turns of Schoenberg’s life, and tracks the composer’s changing relationship with art through the prism of 5 different visual...
