Arnold schoenberg biography

Arnold Schoenberg is one of the major composers of the twentieth century.

Arnold schoenberg biography

He changed the nature of musical language through his pursuit of atonality and serialism in his own compositions and those of his pupils. Yet although many of today’s leading musicians acknowledge him as a towering genius, audiences have only taken a handful of works to their hearts.

During his lifetime Schoenberg was regarded in some quarters as a dangerous modernist with anarchic tendencies. But the composer never viewed himself as a revolutionary.

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His musical gods were Bach, Beethoven Mozart and Brahms, and it was to their models that turned when pursuing a career as an influential teacher, theoretician and educationalist. A creative polymath, he was equally talented as a writer and artist, whose paintings were exhibited alongside those of Kandinsky.

Schoenberg was a sought-after teacher whose most distinguished pupils included Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Hanns Eisler and, much later, John Cage. In