Schoenberg

/ ˈʃɜːnbɜːɡ; ˈʃøːnbɛrk /

noun

1. SchoenbergArnold18741951MAustrianMUSIC: composerMUSIC: musical theorist Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron

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But then I found out that Mann drew on firsthand advice from his buddies Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.

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But as her lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, told me in 2008: “It was important to me to finish the case while Maria was still alive.”

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Arnold Schoenberg of Vienna is the great troubling presence of modern music.

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Schoenberg was never the most instinctive and sensible, the least cerebral and intellectualizing of musicians.

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The work reveals Schoenberg striving to emulate Strauss in the field of the symphonic poem; striving, however, in vain.

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And, curiously enough, throughout the group the old romantic allegiance of the earliest Schoenberg reaffirms itself.

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It may be that many a musician of the future will find himself the better equipped because of Schoenberg's explorations.

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