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Schoenberg

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Schoenberg, Schönberg [ˈʃɜːnbɜːg (German) ˈʃøːnbɛrk]
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(Biographies / Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951) M, Austrian, MUSIC: composer, MUSIC: musical theorist) Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874-1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
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Noun1.Schoenberg - United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)
Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schonberg
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The ghost of Schoenberg wanders through all the texts, with his theories of tone and meter.
Musical currents from the left coast by Reference & Research Book News
1951: Composer Arnold Schoenberg died in Los Angeles.
On this day by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The other work in the programme was Mahler's Fourth Symphony, which could have been conceived in a wholly different world from the Schoenberg though their composition was only separated by seven years.
CLASSICAL Viennese Classics/ Philharmonic Hall by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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