Schoenberg

/ ˈʃɜːnbɜːɡ; ˈʃøːnbɛrk /

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SchoenbergArnold18741951MAustrianMUSIC: composerMUSIC: 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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Schoenberg revolutionized Western compositional techniques and helped shape modern music worldwide, but he also had a profound and still-present influence on the cultural life of Los Angeles.

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Other Schoenberg memorabilia was also destroyed, including photographs, letters and posters.

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Waltzes by Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Shostakovich were tinged with memory, cutting sarcasm and outrageous spoof.

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It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951.

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So, for his part, did Payare, who has a flare for Schoenberg.

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