Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

musical composition method using all 12 chromatic scale notes equally often & not in a key

Austrian artist (1883-1908)

Superstition regarding classical music

alt=Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).|thumb|Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909). Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.

American lawyer

piano quartet by Johannes Brahms

thumb|320px|A caricature of the concert which appeared in Die Zeit (Vienna)|Die Zeit on 6 April, 1913. thumb|Buschbeck, an organizer of the Skandalkonzert who allegedly slapped a concertgoer The '''''''''' ("scandal concert") was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg, held on 31 March 1913. The concert was held by the Vienna Concert Society in the Great Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. The concert consisted of music by composers of the Second Viennese School.

German philosopher