biography
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Schoenberg, Arnold
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also spelled Schönberg
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pronunciation:
[shoenberg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1951)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He was largely self-taught, and in his 20s lived by orchestrating operettas while composing such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899, Transfigured Night). His search for a personal musical style emerged in these works, which were not well received: his Chamber Symphony caused a riot at its first performance in 1907 through its abandonment of the traditional concept of tonality. He became known for his concept of ‘12-note’ or ‘serial’ music, used in most of his later works. At the end of World War 1 he taught in Vienna and Berlin, until exiled by the Nazi government in 1933. He settled in California, and took US nationality in 1941. |
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