The Guardian: Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher 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…
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culture · Austrian-American composer (1874–1951) · classical composer · painter · musicologist · music theorist · writer · conductor · composer · music teacher · artist · also Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Schönberg, A. Schenberg, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Arnold Schonberg, Arnolʹd Shenberg
Born 13 September 1874 · Died 13 July 1951 · Q154770
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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2025· 7 entries
The New York Times: Arnold Schoenberg
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ZEIT: Arnold Schönberg: Von heute auf morgen in Schutt und Asche
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Yahoo: A treasure house of composer Arnold Schoenberg's music destroyed in Palisades fire
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Indiatimes: Arnold Schoenberg archive destroyed in LA fires
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World Socialist Web Site: Los Angeles fires destroy the archive of 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg
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Billboard: Belmont Music, Home of the Arnold Schoenberg Archive, Destroyed in Pacific Palisades Fire
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Verklärte Nacht album review – brightness without transfiguration
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Wall Street Journal: Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-Tone Revolution Turns 100
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ZEIT: Arnold Schönberg: Komponieren gegen die Zeitgeisteskranken
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The Guardian: Schoenberg: Expressionist Music album review – thoughtful and illuminating collection
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Arnold Schönberg zum 150. Geburtstag: „Freitag, der Dreizehnte“
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Transfigurations: Schoenberg Berg review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire; Phantasie, etc review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Erwartung review – dramatic extremes | Andrew Clements' classical album of the week
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1997· 1 entry
“My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349. I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”
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1959· 1 entry
Pupil Josef Rufer recalled him saying, "I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years", but the precision of this quote has been disputed
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1951· 6 entries
Died 1951-07-13.
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“I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.”
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His wife Gertrud founded Belmont Music Publishers, devoted to the publication of his works
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“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”
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“I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.”
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“There is a great Man living in this country — a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.”
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1950· 1 entry
On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13
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1939· 1 entry
So much that a friend asked the composer and astrologer Dane Rudhyar to prepare Schoenberg's horoscope
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1937· 1 entry
Paid $18,000 for a Spanish Colonial home at 116 North Rockingham in Brentwood Park, near the UCLA campus
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1936· 1 entry
Was promoted to professor, with a $5,100 annual salary
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1935· 2 entries
On the recommendation of Otto Klemperer, music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
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Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg claimed that "the whole atonal movement
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1934· 1 entry
Applied for a harmony and theory position at the New South Wales State Conservatorium in Sydney
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1927· 1 entry
Finished Jonny spielt auf (Jonny strikes up [a tune])
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1925· 1 entry
During the Weimar Republic, Schoenberg was appointed to lead the composition master class at Berlin's Prussian Academy of Arts when Ferruccio Busoni died in 1924
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1923· 2 entries
Schoenberg announced the twelve-tone technique as a governing principle he was developing into his own compositional method
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“Those Who Complain about the Decline”
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1921· 1 entry
Married Schoenberg's pupil Felix Greissle) and Georg (1906–1974)
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1912· 2 entries
Emil Gutmann, actress Albertine Zehme's agent, sought a suitably outré composer and chose Schoenberg
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Vienna Conservatory director Wilhelm Bopp offered posts to Schoenberg and Franz Schreker to renew what he saw as Robert Fuchs's and Hermann Graedener's stale milieu
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1911· 1 entry
“s brother was conducting operettas in nearby Munich. Schoenberg exchanged letters with Wassily Kandinsky before visiting him and other painters Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc in Murnau am Staffelsee. 1911–1915: Wilhelmine Berlin Expressionist circles Clark helped Schoenberg, convinced of Vienna”
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1909· 1 entry
Particularly with the third of the Three Piano Pieces and the fifth of the Five Pieces for Orchestra, Schoenberg composed with relative abandon, almost in the manner of stream of consciousness
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1908· 1 entry
With the composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op
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1907· 1 entry
With the tone poem Pelleas und Melisande in Berlin, though much of his (and his pupils') music met hostility
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1906· 1 entry
Completed in 1939), the Variations on a Recitative in D minor, Op
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1904· 1 entry
At the Ansorge-Verein (Ansorge Society), founded to unite poetry and music through recitation and performance, but obtained the poems from his composition pupil Karl Horwitz
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1898· 1 entry
Converted to Lutheran Christianity, in keeping with patterns of Jewish assimilation
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-09-13.
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