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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. Among the first modernist composers to write music of dense motivic relations saturating the musical texture , he propounded concepts like developing variation , the emancipation of the ...
Jul 12, 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.
Jul 12, 2024 · Schoenberg’s most-important atonal compositions include Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (1909); the monodrama Erwartung, Op. 17 (1924; “Expectation”), a stage work for soprano and orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire, 21 recitations (“melodramas”) with chamber accompaniment, Op. 21 (1912); Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1924; “The Hand of Fate”), drama with ...
Apr 6, 2021 · Arnold Schönberg is appointed professor of a masterclass for composition at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, successor to Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924). Variationen für Orchester [Variations for orchestra] op. 31 (1926–28)
Arnold Schönberg: Streichquartett Nr. 3, op. 30, Intermezzo | Allegro moderato | Kolisch-Quartett, 1936 | Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien 00:00 ... pioneer of the twelve-tone method,...
Arnold Schoenberg, (born Sept. 13, 1874, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire—died July 13, 1951, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), Austrian-born U.S. composer. He was raised as a Catholic by his Jewish-born parents. He began studying violin at age eight and later taught himself cello.
Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers and music theorists of the 20th century. Schoenberg’s works represent a significant transition in Western classical music, particularly in the realms of harmony, tonality, and form.
