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Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Also known as: Arnold Franz Walter Schönberg, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Arnold Schönberg
Arnold Schoenberg
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- In full:
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
- Schoenberg also spelled:
- Schönberg
- Died:
- July 13, 1951, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 76)
- Notable Works:
- “A Survivor from Warsaw”
- “Chamber Symphony in E Major”
- “Die glückliche Hand”
- “Expectation”
- “Gurrelieder”
- “Kol Nidre, Opus 39”
- “Moses und Aron”
- “Pelleas und Melisande”
- “Phantasy for Violin and Piano”
- “Piano Suite, Opus 25”
- “Pierrot Lunaire”
- “Second String Quartet in F Sharp Minor, Opus 10”
- “Sommermüd”
- “String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Opus 7”
- “String Quartet No. 4”
- “Three Piano Pieces, Opus 11”
- “Verklärte Nacht”
- “Von Heute auf Morgen”
- “Wind Quintet”
- Movement / Style:
- Modernism
- Postromantic music
- Subjects Of Study:
- 12-tone music
- musical composition
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Arnold Schoenberg (born September 13, 1874, Vienna, Austria—died July 13, 1951, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an 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. Schoenberg’s father, Samuel, owned a small shoe shop in the Second, then predominantly Jewish, district, of Vienna. Neither Samuel nor his wife, Pauline (née Nachod), was particularly musical, although, like most Austrians of their generation, they enjoyed music. There were, however, two professional singers ...(100 of 1945 words)