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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. Among the first modernist composers to write music of dense motivic relations saturating the musical texture, he propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

Schoenberg's early works, lik…

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Artist details

Type
Person
Area
Austria
Born
September 13th, 1874
Died
July 13th, 1951
Genres
Labels
Naxos
Columbia
TELDEC
Harmonia Mundi
Hyperion
Last updated: February 22nd, 2019