Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (Known as "Schoenberg")

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Born Sep 13, 1874

Vienna, Austria

Passed Away Jul 13, 1951 Los Angeles, California, United States

Lifespan 76 years old

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"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."

Archival Overview

Austrian-American modern composer and pioneer of atonality and the twelve-tone serial technique.

Biographical Record

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-born composer, music theorist, and painter who created the most radical paradigm shift in 20th-century Western music: the breakdown of traditional tonal harmony and the creation of the twelve-tone (dodecaphonic) serial technique.

Beginning with lush late-Romantic works like Verklärte Nacht (1899), Schoenberg progressively 'emancipated the dissonance', leading the Second Viennese School with disciples Alban Berg and Anton Webern. In his 1912 melodrama Pierrot Lunaire, he pioneered Sprechstimme (speech-song). Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933 due to his Jewish heritage, Schoenberg settled in Los Angeles, teaching at UCLA and USC and shaping modern musical modernism.

Key Life Milestones

1912

Pierrot Lunaire

Premiered his revolutionary expressionist song cycle in Berlin, introducing the expressive technique of Sprechstimme.

1923

The Twelve-Tone Technique

Formulated the dodecaphonic system of composition with twelve notes related only with one another.

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Final Resting Place

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Vienna Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof)
Vienna, Austria

                         GPS: 48.1504, 16.4401                    

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