Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg · Arts & Literature
Austrian composer who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique, a founder of the Second Viennese School and one of the most influential musical modernists.
1874, Vienna, Austria — 1951, Los Angeles, California, United States
Austria · Germany · United States
Arnold Schoenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Austrian composer who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique, a founder of the Second Viennese School and one of the most influential musical modernists.
Schoenberg broke with traditional tonality and, around 1921, systematized the twelve-tone method of composition, giving Western music a new organizing principle and founding, with his pupils Berg and Webern, the Second Viennese School. Fleeing Nazi Germany, he settled in the United States and taught at UCLA. Born into a Viennese Jewish family, he converted to Lutheranism in 1898 but formally returned to Judaism in Paris in 1933 as antisemitism rose.
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Austrian composer who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique, a founder of the Second Viennese School and one of the most influential musical modernists.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg
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