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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Phil ends its Hollywood Bowl season with the premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s ‘Cool Cat,’ a fanfare in memory of P-22, along with Glass and Holst.

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The program was to have been Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s tonally kaleidoscopic, over-the-top early tone poem “Pelleas und Melisande.”

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Schoenberg’s “Pelleas und Melisande” was written 1903 by a 29-year-old composer on the verge of revolutionizing music but still finding his way out of 19th century romanticism.

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So, for his part, did Payare, who has a flare for Schoenberg.

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Dec. 13 and 15 Zubin Mehta Conducts “Gurrelieder” at Disney Hall Sept. 13 marks the 150th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, an Angeleno for the last nearly two decades of his life.

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