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(1874 – 1951)
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg – Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he re-converted to Judaism in 1933) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian composer. One of the most important composers of the 20th century, he is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows. He was also an important music theorist and an influential teacher of composition.
Biography
Arnold Schönberg was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Leopoldstadt district (in earlier times a Jewish ghetto) in Vienna. Although his mother Pauline, a native of Prague, was a piano teacher (his father Samuel, a native of Bratislava, was a wealthy shopkeeper), Arnold was largely self-taught, taking only counterpoint lessons with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, who was to become his first brother-in-law. In his twenties, he lived by orchestrating operettas while composing works such as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”) in 1899. He later made an orchestral version of this, which has come to be one of his most popular pieces. Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg’s significance as a composer, Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after hearing several of Schoenberg’s early works. Mahler adopted Schoenberg as a protégé and worried about who would look after him after his death. Schoenberg, who criticized Mahler’s first several symphonies, was nevertheless influenced by Mahler’s art, championed his work and considered Mahler a “saint.
Biography
Arnold Schönberg was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Leopoldstadt district (in earlier times a Jewish ghetto) in Vienna. Although his mother Pauline, a native of Prague, was a piano teacher (his father Samuel, a native of Bratislava, was a wealthy shopkeeper), Arnold was largely self-taught, taking only counterpoint lessons with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, who was to become his first brother-in-law. In his twenties, he lived by orchestrating operettas while composing works such as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”) in 1899. He later made an orchestral version of this, which has come to be one of his most popular pieces. Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg’s significance as a composer, Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after hearing several of Schoenberg’s early works. Mahler adopted Schoenberg as a protégé and worried about who would look after him after his death. Schoenberg, who criticized Mahler’s first several symphonies, was nevertheless influenced by Mahler’s art, championed his work and considered Mahler a “saint.
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Those string quartets man, they're like, the best thing I've ever heard.
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Wow this is blowing my mind, i'm happy my parents expose me to such good music.
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his second string quartet is incredible, stunning, touching...
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Seavas wrote:
That version's obviously far too sung, I much prefer her sublime Bach performances.
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This is true.
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v lol
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v Well, for a start there's Hatsune Miku.
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Seavas wrote:
Yeah, but how many (modern) singers do Pierrot Lunaire right?
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pierrot lunaire is dark cabaret done right
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poeq wrote:
good counter argument. really creative. way to think outside the box,
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(it isnt)
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catholicbird wrote:
"Tonal is a synonym for turd" >listens to metal, the most atonal music in the world
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"woooow look at english boy over here, saying words in english" - a foreigner
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"blablabla, I'm so intelligent and I know many english words blablabla" this is literally the most adorable thing ive ever heard
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easy-listening music.
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thanx WarEnsemble_666.. You don't know how much that means to me. [2]
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yeah all of his piano music hits me hard
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Kundera's opinion of Schönberg is quite interesting to say the least.
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The Critic ~ Part 4: Schoenberg's Tone-Rows (1)
14 Oct 2011 | from eschbeg.blogspot.com/
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