Arnold Schoenberg
Noun
Meaning
United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)
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As far as music is concerned, it would be difficult to find a historian of Modernism who does not place Arnold Schoenberg 's 1912 song-cycle Pierrot lunaire at the very pinnacle of High-Modernist achievement.
Arnold Schoenberg ’s Piano Concerto is a well-known example of a dodecaphonic piano concerto.
Arnold Schoenberg 's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat major (1933) was composed after Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6/7.
Arnold Schoenberg 's Friede auf Erden is a tonal kaleidoscope, whose tonal centers are constantly shifting (his harmonically innovative Verklärte Nacht for strings dates from the same period).
Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904.
Letter of 5 December 1949, quoted in Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work, trans.