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Arnold Schoenberg

Born

in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian empire

September 13, 1874

Died

July 13, 1951

Genre

Music

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Noted Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg abandoned tradition and developed the twelve-tone system for music.

Associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, he led the second Viennese school. He used the spelling Schönberg until his move to the United States in 1934, whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg "in deference to American practice."

His approach in terms of harmony developed among the major landmarks of 20th-century thought; at least three generations in the Europeans and Americans consciously extended his thinking or in some cases passionately reacted in opposition. During the rise of the Nazi party, people labeled jazz as degenerate art.

People widely knew Schoenberg early in his career for his success in sim ...more

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	Theory of Harmony 4.30 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 1911 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg, Gerald Strang (Editor), Leonard Stein (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg 4.25 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1950 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Structural Functions of Harmony 4.14 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1954 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Verklarte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire 4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1963 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arnold Schoenberg / Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents by Arnold Schoenberg (Editor), Wassily Kandinsky 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gustav Mahler by Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Pestalozza (Traduttore) 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harmonia by Arnold Schoenberg, Marden Maluf (Translator) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1911 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moïse et Aaron by Arnold Schoenberg, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”
― Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

tags: art, music

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“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.”
― Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony

tags: music-theory

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“Der Mittelweg ist der einzige, der nicht nach Rom führt.”
― Arnold Schoenberg

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