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Category:	Modern Music
Name:	Arnold Schoenberg
Birth Year:	1874
Death Year:	1951
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Arnold Schoenberg Artist Song Name Composer Composition Instrument Arnold Schoenberg, (less frequently spelled Schonberg) (born, September 13, 1874, died July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He was largely self-taught, and in his twenties lived by orchestrating operettas while composing works such as the string sextet Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) in 1899. Much of his work was not well received and in 1907 his Chamber Symphony was an abandonment of tonality. He created the twelve-tone method of composition (which later grew into serialism), and founded the so-called Second Viennese School. He taught and greatly influenced Anton Webern and Alban Berg. He was forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, settled in California and became a US citizen in 1941. He died in Los Angeles, California. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Arnold Schoenberg.] The Great Books: Arnold Schoenberg Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Arnold Schoenberg. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Arnold Schoenberg. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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