Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg, (1874-1951). Austrian composer. Largely self-taught as a musician, the young Schoen-berg earned a living by arranging popular operettas. He later taught music in Vienna and Berlin. His works of the 1910s became increasingly dissonant, while those of the 1920s introduced the technique known as serialism, in which all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are used. Having been driven from Germany by the Nazis, he settled in California and became a US citizen in 1941. Besides numerous instrumental works he wrote Pierrot .Lunaire (1912), for voice and five instruments, and the opera Moses and Aaron (1932-51).
“There is still a great deal of music to be written in C major.
Arnold Schoenberg, attrib.”
