Arnold Schoenberg
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Arnold Schoenberg was an influential Austrian-Jewish American composer who lived from 1874 to 1951 and revolutionized classical music by developing the twelve-tone technique, a new way of organizing musical notes that departed from traditional harmony. His innovative approach fundamentally changed how 20th-century composers thought about and created music, making him a pivotal figure in modern classical music.
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- Born
- 1874
- Died
- 1951
- Works
- 269
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- Eine neue Zwölfton-Schrift
- Opinions musicales
- [Schoenberg-Engel correspondence]
- Zar hinkha
- הנצול מורשה
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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was a Jewish Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. By 1938, with the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works were labeled degenerate music, because he was Jewish. He moved to the United States in 1934. (Wikipedia)
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- Through the Darkness2021
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- 1874-09-13
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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, teacher, and associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone composition. He taught composition in Vienna and at the Prussian Academy of Arts (1925–1933), resigning in anticipation of Nazi Germany's civil–service restrictions. He defiantly reaffirmed his Judaism before immigrating to the United States, where he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944).
Early works like Verklärte Nacht (1899) and Gurre-Lieder (1900–1903, orch. 1910–1911) represented a synthesis of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner, while Richard Strauss influenced Pelleas und Melisande (1902–1903). Schoenberg mentored Anton Webern and Alban Berg, among others tied to the Second Viennese School, and they began writing atonal, expressionist music. He visited extremes of emotion in his String Quartet No. 2 (1907–1908) and Erwartung (1909), and used word painting structurally in Herzgewächse (1911, published with his other works in Der Blaue Reiter Almanach in 1912) and Pierrot lunaire (1912). As opposition and antisemitism gradually deepened his sense of outsider, Jewish identity, he underwent a spiritual turn inspired partly by Gustav Mahler, began Die Jakobsleiter (planned from 1912), and sought a large-scale governing principle like tonality.
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1874 births1951 deaths20th-century American composers20th-century American male composers20th-century American painters20th-century Austrian composers20th-century Austrian male artists20th-century Austrian male musicians20th-century Austrian painters20th-century classical composersAcademic staff of the Prussian Academy of ArtsAmerican avant-garde musicians