Arnold Schoenberg
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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 co
Schoenberg in 1927
Schönberg in Payerbach, 1903
Portrait of Schoenberg by Richard Gerstl, 1905
Gerstl's Schönberg Family, 1907
Verklärte Nacht
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Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899. Composed in just three weeks, it is considered his earliest important work. It was inspired by Richard
Arnold Schoenberg
…reaffirmed his Judaism before immigrating to the United States, where he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944). Early works like Verklärte Nacht (1899) and Gurre-Lieder (1900–1903, orch. 1910–1911) represented a synthesis of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner, while Richard Strauss influenced…
Arnold Schoenberg, by Egon Schiele, 1917
Mathilde Schönberg (1907), by Richard Gerstl