Arnold schoenberg composer biography movies

Austrian-American composer (–)

"Schoenberg" redirects here. For others with the surname, see Schoenberg (surname).

Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg in Los Angeles, c.&#;
Born	()13 September Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	13 July () (aged&#;76) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupations	Composer music theorist teacher
Known&#;for	Second Viennese School
Works	List of compositions

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg^[a] (13 September &#;&#; 13 July ) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

Schoenberg's early works, like Verklärte Nacht (), represented a Brahmsian–Wagneria