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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg [a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music , and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence.
Arnold Schoenberg, the key figure in the Expressionist movement. The term expressionism "was probably first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg", because like the painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) he avoided "traditional forms of beauty" to convey powerful feelings in his music. [1]
Max Reger: Eine romantische Suite [A Romantic Suite], Op. 125 (arr. Arnold Schoenberg & Rudolf Kolisch, 1919/1920: flute, clarinet, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, harmonium for 4 hands, piano for 4 hands) Schubert: Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern Incidental music, D. 797 (arr. 1903?: piano for 4 hands)
The Five Pieces further develop the notion of "total chromaticism" that Schoenberg introduced in his Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (composed earlier that year) and were composed during a time of intense personal and artistic crisis for the composer, this being reflected in the tensions and, at times, extreme violence of the score, mirroring the expressionist movement of the time, in particular ...
Arnold Schoenberg was already a towering intellectual and cultural figure when he landed in Los Angeles in 1934. Born in Vienna in 1874, the composer also was a writer, teacher, inventor and painter.
Sachs noted that Schoenberg then earned a living by making reductions of more successful composers' music, including opera and operetta, as well as by conducting workers' choirs. [9] For Stuckenschmidt, the Zwei Gesänge , in their scale, dynamic range, and many detailed expressive markings , anticipated his 1911 extended orchestral song cycle ...
The Book of the Hanging Gardens served as the start to the atonal period in Schoenberg's music. Atonal compositions, referred to as "pantonal" by Schoenberg, [1] typically contain features such as a lack of central tonality, pervading harmonic dissonance rather than consonance, and a general absence of traditional melodic progressions.
A History of Western Music (4th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. Hayakawa, Miyako (3 March 2006). "Vienna Trio Celebrates Softer Side of Mozart". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Schoenberg, Arnold (1949). "Schoenberg Voice Recording: My Evolution" (transcript). University of Southern California Archives. Archived from the original on 25 May 2008