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
John Cage
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John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the
Arnold Schoenberg
…Op. 38 (begun in 1906, completed in 1939), the Variations on a Recitative in D minor, Op. 40 (1941). During this period his notable students included John Cage and Lou Harrison. In 1941, he became a U.S. citizen. He was the first composer in residence at the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory in…
Cage in 1988
Cage studied with composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1933 to 1935.
An example of a prepared piano
Composer Morton Feldman in 1976