1. Schoenberg - Noun
2. Schoenberg - Proper noun
United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)
Source: WordNetThe pre-World War I works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, "give a glimpse of a new universe of emancipated discourse, unfortunately quickly abandoned when Schoenberg returned to the classical musical shapes upon adopting the twelve-tone system." Elliott Carter
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. Leo Ornstein
His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century. George Perle
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. Daniel Barenboim
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. John Zorn
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. Source: Internet