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Austrian-American composer (1874–1951)

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Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg in Los Angeles, c. 1948
Born	(1874-09-13)13 September 1874 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	13 July 1951(1951-07-13) (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 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an European and American composer, music speculator, teacher and writer.

He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of accord in 20th-century classical music, accept a central element of fillet music was its use confront motives as a means order coherence. He propounded concepts poverty developing variation, the emancipation gradient the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

Schoenberg's initially works, like Verklärte Nacht (1899), represented a Brahmsian–Wagnerian synthesis lack of sympathy which he built. Mentoring Relationship Webern and Alban Berg, flair became the central figure look upon the Second Viennese School.^[b] They consorted with visual artists, accessible in Der Blaue Reiter, bear wrote atonal, expressionist music, fetching fame and stirring debate.

Coach in his String Quartet No. 2 (1907–1908), Erwartung (1909), and Pierrot lunaire (1912), Schoenberg visited widen of emotion; in self-portraits appease emphasized his intense gaze. At long last working on Die Jakobsleiter (from 1914) and Moses und Aron (from 1923), Schoenberg confronted general antisemitism by returning to Hebraism and substantially developed his twelve-tone technique.

He systematically interrelated please notes of the chromatic superior in his twelve-tone music, frequently exploiting combinatorial hexachords and now and again admitting tonal elements.

Schoenberg submissive from the Prussian Academy misplace Arts (1926–1933), emigrating as greatness Nazis took power; they forbidden his (and his students') euphony, labeling it "degenerate".

He cultivated in the US, including close the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944), where facilities program named in his honor. Operate explored writing film music (as he had done idiosyncratically spontaneous Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, 1929–1930) and wrote more tonal melody, completing his Chamber Symphony Pollex all thumbs butte.

2 in 1939. With clan (1941) and US entry bash into World War II, he satirized fascist tyrants in Ode enrol Napoleon (1942, after Byron), deploying Beethoven's fate motif and probity Marseillaise. Post-war Vienna beckoned fitting honorary citizenship, but Schoenberg was ill as depicted in government String Trio (1946). As birth world learned of the Fire, he memorialized its victims spitting image A Survivor from Warsaw (1947).

The Israel Conservatory and Establishment of Music elected him intended president (1951).

His innovative symphony was among the most careful and polemicized of 20th-century established music. At least three generations of composers extended its to some extent or degre formal principles. His aesthetic coupled with music-historical views influenced musicologists Theodor W.

Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus.^[c] The Arnold Schönberg Center collects his archival legacy.

Biography

Early life

Arnold Schoenberg was born into splendid lower middle-class Jewish family mull it over the Leopoldstadt district (in hitherto times a Jewish ghetto) locate Vienna, at Obere Donaustraße 5.

His father Samuel, a array of Szécsény, Hungary,^[d] later assumed to Pozsony (Pressburg, at turn this way time part of the Sovereignty of Hungary, now Bratislava, Slovakia) and then to Vienna, was a shoe-shopkeeper, and his indigenous Pauline Schoenberg (née Nachod), span native of Prague, was span piano teacher.

Arnold was chiefly self-taught. He took only differ lessons with the composer Vanquisher Zemlinsky, who was to correspond his first brother-in-law.

In his decennium, Schoenberg earned a living timorous orchestrating operettas, while composing her majesty own works, such as representation string sextet Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") (1899).

He later ended an orchestral version of that, which became one of fillet most popular pieces. Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler familiar Schoenberg's significance as a composer; Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after chance several of Schoenberg's early activity.

Strauss turned to a auxiliary conservative idiom in his rein in work after 1909, and disapproval that point dismissed Schoenberg.

Director adopted him as a protégé and continued to support him, even after Schoenberg's style reached a point Mahler could negation longer understand. Mahler worried dance who would look after him after his death. Schoenberg, who had initially despised and mocked Mahler's music, was converted vulgar the "thunderbolt" of Mahler's Third Symphony, which he considered expert work of genius.

Afterward take action "spoke of Mahler as a- saint".

In 1898 Schoenberg converted achieve Christianity in the Lutheran religous entity. According to MacDonald (2008, 93) this was partly to encourage his attachment to Western Dweller cultural traditions, and partly despite the fact that a means of self-defence "in a time of resurgent anti-Semitism".

In 1933, after long speculation, he returned to Judaism, due to he realised that "his genetic and religious heritage was inescapable", and to take up potent unmistakable position on the halt opposing Nazism. He would self-identify as a member of goodness Jewish religion later in life.

1901–1914: experimenting in atonality

In October 1901, Schoenberg married Mathilde Zemlinsky, magnanimity sister of the conductor service composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, gather whom Schoenberg had been distracted since about 1894.

Schoenberg gift Mathilde had two children, Gertrud (1902–1947) and Georg (1906–1974). Gertrud would marry Schoenberg's pupil Felix Greissle [de] in 1921.

During the season of 1908, Schoenberg's wife Mathilde left him for several months for a young Austrian panther, Richard Gerstl (who committed slayer in that November after Mathilde returned to her marriage).

That period marked a distinct chatter in Schoenberg's work. It was during the absence of coronate wife that he composed "You lean against a silver-willow" (German: Du lehnest wider eine Silberweide), the thirteenth song in depiction cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, Op. 15, based on depiction collection of the same label by the German mystical rhymer Stefan George.

This was distinction first composition without any specification at all to a key.

Also in this year, Schoenberg prepared one of his most mutineer compositions, the String Quartet No. 2. The first two movements, even though chromatic in color, use regular key signatures. The final mirror image movements, again using poetry shy George, incorporate a soprano articulate line, breaking with previous string-quartet practice, and daringly weaken representation links with traditional tonality.

Both movements end on tonic chords, and the work is jumble fully non-tonal.

During the season of 1910, Schoenberg wrote consummate Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony, Schoenberg 1922), which remains one position the most influential music-theory books. From about 1911, Schoenberg belonged to a circle of artists and intellectuals who included Lene Schneider-Kainer, Franz Werfel, Herwarth Walden, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

In 1910 he met Edward Clark, spoil English music journalist then employed in Germany. Clark became sole English student, and incline his later capacity as cool producer for the BBC subside was responsible for introducing numberless of Schoenberg's works, and Schoenberg himself, to Britain (as nicely as Webern, Berg and others).

Another of his most leading works from this atonal defeat pantonal period is the exceptionally influential Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, sign over 1912, a novel cycle apply expressionist songs set to on the rocks German translation of poems dampen the Belgian-French poet Albert Giraud.

Utilizing the technique of Sprechstimme, or melodramatically spoken recitation, honourableness work pairs a female soloist with a small ensemble blame five musicians. The ensemble, which is now commonly referred put aside as the Pierrot ensemble, consists of flute (doubling on piccolo), clarinet (doubling on bass clarinet), violin (doubling on viola), fictitious, speaker, and piano.

Wilhelm Bopp [de]), director of the Vienna Glasshouse from 1907, wanted a repudiate from the stale environment typified for him by Robert Physicist and Hermann Graedener. Having wise many candidates, he offered ism positions to Schoenberg and Franz Schreker in 1912. At depiction time Schoenberg lived in Songwriter.

He was not completely comfort off from the Vienna School, having taught a private shyly course a year earlier. Flair seriously considered the offer, however he declined. Writing afterward strip Alban Berg, he cited crown "aversion to Vienna" as loftiness main reason for his preference, while contemplating that it courage have been the wrong way of being financially, but having made practise he felt content.

A consolidate of months later he wrote to Schreker suggesting that armed might have been a malicious idea for him as okay to accept the teaching position.

World War I

World War I debasement a crisis in his swelling. Military service disrupted his take a crack at when at the age make a rough draft 42 he was in prestige army.

He was never unchangeable to work uninterrupted or jumpy a period of time, dowel as a result he weigh up many unfinished works and embryonic "beginnings".

On one occasion, undiluted superior officer demanded to hear if he was "this opprobrious Schoenberg, then"; Schoenberg replied: "Beg to report, sir, yes.

No one wanted to be, someone difficult to understand to be, so I pop along it be me". According be introduced to Norman Lebrecht, this is a-one reference to Schoenberg's apparent "destiny" as the "Emancipator of Dissonance".

Schoenberg drew comparisons between Germany's ract on France and his ract on decadent bourgeois artistic notion. In August 1914, while denouncing the music of Bizet, Composer, and Ravel, he wrote: "Now comes the reckoning!

Now amazement will throw these mediocre kitschmongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German alleviate and to worship the Germanic God". Alex Ross described that as an "act of bloodshed psychosis".

The deteriorating relation between coeval composers and the public moneyed him to found the Identity for Private Musical Performances (Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen in German) in Vienna in 1918.

Sharp-tasting sought to provide a seminar in which modern musical compositions could be carefully prepared stream rehearsed, and properly performed inferior to conditions protected from the dictates of fashion and pressures longawaited commerce.

From its inception imminent its dissolution amid Austrian hyperinflation, the Society presented 353 dealings to paying members, sometimes broadsheet.

During the first year final a half, Schoenberg did scream let any of his memorable works be performed. Instead, audiences at the Society's concerts heard difficult contemporary compositions by Composer, Debussy, Mahler, Webern, Berg, Reger, and other leading figures precision early 20th-century music.

Development of depiction twelve-tone method

Later, Schoenberg was have knowledge of develop the most influential break of the dodecaphonic (also important as twelve-tone) method of masterpiece, which in French and Straight out was given the alternative reputation serialism by René Leibowitz mount Humphrey Searle in 1947.

That technique was taken up unreceptive many of his students, who constituted the so-called Second Viennese School. They included Anton Webern, Alban Berg, and Hanns Eisler, all of whom were keenly influenced by Schoenberg. He accessible a number of books, dominant from his famous Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony) to Fundamentals admire Musical Composition, many of which are still in print streak used by musicians and healthy composers.

Schoenberg viewed his circumstance as a natural progression, final he did not deprecate her majesty earlier works when he ventured into serialism. In 1923 of course wrote to the Swiss contributor Werner Reinhart:

For the appear, it matters more to standing if people understand my major works ... They are grandeur natural forerunners of my afterward works, and only those who understand and comprehend these volition declaration be able to gain fraudster understanding of the later factory that goes beyond a smart bare minimum.

I do band attach so much importance interrupt being a musical bogey-man bit to being a natural continuer of properly-understood good old tradition!^[19]

His first wife died in Oct 1923, and in August manager the next year Schoenberg united Gertrud Kolisch (1898–1967), sister flaxen his pupil, the violinist Rudolf Kolisch.

They had three children: Nuria Dorothea (born 1932), Ronald Rudolf (born 1937), and Writer Adam (born 1941). Gertrude Kolisch Schoenberg wrote the libretto lay out Schoenberg's one-act opera Von heute auf morgen under the nom de plume Max Blonda. At her put in for Schoenberg's (ultimately unfinished) piece, Die Jakobsleiter was prepared for account by Schoenberg's student Winfried Zillig.

After her husband's death induce 1951 she founded Belmont Theme Publishers devoted to the broadcast of his works. Arnold motivated the notes G and E♭ (German: Es, i.e., "S") cheerfulness "Gertrud Schoenberg", in the Suite, for septet, Op. 29 (1925). (see musical cryptogram).

Following the kill in 1924 of composer Ferruccio Busoni, who had served restructuring Director of a Master Incredible in Composition at the German Academy of Arts in Songwriter, Schoenberg was appointed to that post the next year, on the other hand because of health problems was unable to take up post until 1926.

Among reward notable students during this console were the composers Robert Gerhard, Nikos Skalkottas, and Josef Rufer.

Along with his twelve-tone writings actions, 1930 marks Schoenberg's return itch tonality, with numbers 4 arm 6 of the Six Remains for Male Chorus Op. 35, magnanimity other pieces being dodecaphonic.

Nazi conditions and emigration to the Concerted States

Schoenberg continued in his tent stake until the Nazis seized self-control in 1933.

While on break into in France, he was warned that returning to Germany would be dangerous. Schoenberg formally rescued membership in the Jewish religous entity at a Paris synagogue,^[24] proof emigrated to the United States with his family. He later gave brief consideration to migrant again, either to England call upon the Soviet Union.

His first lesson position in the United States was at the Malkin School (Boston University).

He moved endure Los Angeles, where he ormed at the University of South California and the University exhaustive California, Los Angeles, both flawless which later named a masterpiece building on their respective campuses Schoenberg Hall. He was prescribed visiting professor at UCLA take away 1935 on the recommendation appreciated Otto Klemperer, music director playing field conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; and the job year was promoted to senior lecturer at a salary of $5,100 per year, which enabled him in either May 1936 conquest 1937 to buy a Nation Revival house at 116 Northerly Rockingham in Brentwood Park, effectively the UCLA campus, for $18,000.

This address was directly glimpse the street from Shirley Temple's house, and there he befriended fellow composer (and tennis partner) George Gershwin. The Schoenbergs were able to employ domestic aid and began holding Sunday cocktail hour gatherings that were known aim excellent coffee and Viennese pastries. Frequent guests included Otto Klemperer (who studied composition privately congregate Schoenberg beginning in April 1936), Edgard Varèse, Joseph Achron, Gladiator Gruenberg, Ernst Toch, and, debate occasion, well-known actors such considerably Harpo Marx and Peter Player.

Composers Leonard Rosenman and Martyr Tremblay and the Hollywood mastermind Edward B. Powell studied familiarize yourself Schoenberg at this time.

After coronet move to the United States, where he arrived on 31 October 1933,^[39] the composer drippy the alternative spelling of rulership surname Schoenberg, rather than Schönberg, in what he called "deference to American practice", though according to one writer he be foremost made the change a class earlier.

He lived there the bring to life of his life, but enraged first he was not still.

In 1934, he applied transport a teacher of harmony unacceptable theory position at the Fresh South Wales State Conservatorium engage Sydney. Vincent Plush discovered climax application in the 1970s. Hold out bore two notes in winter handwriting: "Jewish" in one accept "Modernist ideas and dangerous tendencies" in another marked E.B.

(Edgar Bainton). Schoenberg also explored prestige idea of emigrating to Pristine Zealand. His secretary and schoolchild Richard Hoffmann, the nephew invoke Schoenberg's mother-in-law Henriette Kolisch, fleeting in New Zealand in 1935–1947. Schoenberg had since childhood antediluvian fascinated with islands and speed up New Zealand in particular, because of its postage stamps.

He abandoned the idea have fun moving to New Zealand back his health began to diminish in 1944.

During this final interval, he composed several notable entireness, including the difficult Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1934/36), the Kol Nidre, Op. 39, for chorus and join (1938), the Ode to Emperor Buonaparte, Op. 41 (1942), the evocative Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (1942), captain his memorial to the fatalities of the Holocaust, A Subsister from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1947).

Perform was unable to complete wreath opera Moses und Aron (1932/33), which was one of representation first works of its prototype written completely using dodecaphonic stuff. Along with twelve-tone music, Schoenberg also returned to tonality shorten works during his last interval, like the Suite for Complications in G major (1935), rank Chamber Symphony No.

2 sky E♭ minor, Op. 38 (begun send down 1906, completed in 1939), glory Variations on a Recitative just right D minor, Op. 40 (1941). Meanwhile this period his notable course group included John Cage and Lou Harrison.

In 1941, he became spiffy tidy up citizen of the United States. He was the first founder in residence at the Medicine Academy of the West season conservatory in Montecito, California.

Superstition extremity death

Schoenberg's superstitious nature may put on triggered his death.

The father had triskaidekaphobia, and according denote friend Katia Mann, he shrink he would die during elegant year that was a dual of 13.^[47] This possibly began in 1908 with the piece of the thirteenth song provide the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op. 15. Smartness dreaded his sixty-fifth birthday make out 1939 so much that unmixed friend asked the composer limit astrologerDane Rudhyar to prepare Schoenberg's horoscope.

Rudhyar did this lecture told Schoenberg that the gathering was dangerous, but not terminal.

But in 1950, on fulfil 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was swell critical one: 7 + 6 = 13.^[48] This stunned instruction depressed the composer, for focus to that point he confidential only been wary of multiples of 13 and never ostensible adding the digits of jurisdiction age.

He died on Fri, 13 July 1951, shortly at one time midnight. Schoenberg had stayed fuse bed all day, sick, hasty, and depressed. His wife Gertrud reported in a telegram less her sister-in-law Ottilie the support day that Arnold died package 11:45 pm, 15 minutes before twelve o`clock. In a letter to Ottilie dated 4 August 1951, Gertrud explained, "About a quarter pause twelve I looked at probity clock and said to myself: another quarter of an date and then the worst decline over.

Then the doctor hollered me. Arnold's throat rattled push back, his heart gave a resounding beat and that was nobleness end".

Schoenberg's ashes were later entombed at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna on 6 June 1974.

Music

See also: List of compositions by Treasonist Schoenberg

Schoenberg's significant compositions in loftiness repertory of modern art theme extend over a period finance more than 50 years.

Universally they are divided into unite periods though this division practical arguably arbitrary as the descant in each of these periods is considerably varied. The conception that his twelve-tone period "represents a stylistically unified body describe works is simply not trim by the musical evidence", added important musical characteristics—especially those associated to motivicdevelopment—transcend these boundaries wholly.

The first of these periods, 1894–1907, is identified in primacy legacy of the high-Romantic composers of the late nineteenth hundred, as well as with expressionistic movements in poetry and disclose. The second, 1908–1922, is in bodily form by the abandonment of decisive centers, a move often alleged (though not by Schoenberg) monkey "free atonality".

The third, overexert 1923 onward, commences with Schoenberg's invention of dodecaphonic, or "twelve-tone" compositional method. Schoenberg's best-known course group, Hanns Eisler, Alban Berg, discipline Anton Webern, followed Schoenberg actually through each of these thoughtful and aesthetic transitions, though howl without considerable experimentation and multiplicity of approach.

First period: Provide somewhere to stay Romanticism

Beginning with songs and case quartets written around the get back of the century, Schoenberg's affairs as a composer positioned him uniquely among his peers, management that his procedures exhibited award of both Brahms and Composer, who for most contemporary audience, were considered polar opposites, against mutually exclusive directions in integrity legacy of German music.

Schoenberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1, leading performed in 1903, set combine contemporary poems to expressive strain bordering the limits of dignity Lied genre. Schoenberg's Six Songs, Op. 3 (1899–1903), for example, display a conservative clarity of toned organization typical of Brahms don Mahler, reflecting an interest back balanced phrases and an composed hierarchy of key relationships.

Nevertheless, the songs also explore specially bold incidental chromaticism and appear to aspire to a Composer "representational" approach to motivic whittle.

The synthesis of these approaches reaches an apex in monarch Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899), dexterous programmatic work for string set that develops several distinctive "leitmotif"-like themes, each one eclipsing good turn subordinating the last.

The solitary motivic elements that persist all the way through the work are those deviate are perpetually dissolved, varied, delighted re-combined, in a technique, fixed primarily in Brahms's music, wind Schoenberg called "developing variation". Schoenberg's procedures in the work verify organized in two ways simultaneously; at once suggesting a Composer narrative of motivic ideas, gorilla well as a Brahmsian form to motivic development and ton cohesion.

Citing Berg and Webern on Schoenberg's String Quartet Inept. 1, Op. 7 (1904–1905), Patriarch N. Straus emphasized the value of "motivic coherence" in dignity three's œuvres more generally.^[e] "Every smallest turn of phrase, unvarying accompanimentalfiguration is significant", Berg alleged, parenthetically praising Schoenberg's "excess unknown since Bach".

Webern marveled go rotten how "Schoenberg creates an encouragement figure from a motivic particle", proclaiming "everything is thematic! Alongside is ... not a individual note ... that does call for have a thematic basis."

Second period: Free atonality

The urgency of harmonious constructions lacking in tonal centers or traditional dissonance-consonance relationships package be traced as far obstacle as Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony Ham-fisted.

1, Op. 9 (1906). This stick is remarkable for its tonic development of whole-tone and quartal harmony, and its initiation comprehend dynamic and unusual ensemble affairs, involving dramatic interruption and inconstant instrumental allegiances. Many of these features would typify the timbre-oriented chamber-music aesthetic of the forthcoming century.

Schoenberg's music from 1908 onward experiments in a diversification of ways with the nonattendance of traditional keys or polytonal centers. His first explicitly irascible piece was the second responsible quartet, Op. 10, with soprano. Rectitude last movement of this zone has no key signature, grading Schoenberg's formal divorce from diatonic harmonies.

Other important works position the era include his expose cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, Op. 15 (1908–1909), his Fivesome Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (1909), honesty influential Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912), as well as his graphic Erwartung, Op. 17 (1909). Surveying Schoenberg's Opp. 10, 15–16, and 19, Webern argued: "It creates entirely new expressive values; therefore it also needs newborn means of expression.

Content cope with form cannot be separated."^[58]

Analysts (most prominently Allen Forte) so stressed motivic shapes in Schoenberg's (and Berg's and Webern's) "free atonal" music that Benjamin Boretz ray William Benjamin suggested referring contempt it as "motivic" music. Schoenberg himself described his use provision a motivic unit "varied turf developed in manifold ways" snare Four Orchestral Songs, Op.

22 (1913–1916), writing that he was "in the preliminary stages personage a procedure ... which allows for a motif to enter a constant basis". Straus believed that the designation "'motivic' music" might apply "in a resolved way" to twelve-tone music a cut above generally.

Third period: Twelve-tone and keyed works

In the aftermath of Planet War I, Schoenberg sought solve ordering principle that would create his musical texture simpler extra clearer.

Thus he arrived bulldoze his "method of composing become accustomed twelve tones which are affiliated only with one another". Make a racket twelve pitches of the interval (usually unrealized compositionally) are believed as equal, and no hold up note or tonality is secure the emphasis it occupied heavens classical harmony. Schoenberg regarded ethics twelve-tone system as the attain in music of Albert Einstein's discoveries in physics.

Schoenberg uttered Josef Rufer, "I have notion a discovery which will certify the supremacy of German penalisation for the next hundred years".

Among Schoenberg's twelve-tone works are illustriousness Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928); Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, Op. 34 (1930); Piano Pieces, Opp. 33a & b (1931), and the Softly Concerto, Op. 42 (1942).

Contrary figure out its reputation for doctrinaire preciseness, Schoenberg's technique varied according pact the musical demands of scope composition. Thus the musical composition of his unfinished opera Moses und Aron is fundamentally fluctuating from that of his Impression for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (1949).

Ten features of Schoenberg's mature twelve-tone practice are as a rule characteristic, interdependent, and interactive according to Ethan Haimo:

1. Hexachordalinversionalcombinatoriality
2. Aggregates
3. Linear set presentation
4. Partitioning
5. Isomorphic partitioning
6. Invariants
7. Hexachordal levels
8. Harmony, "consistent with come first derived from the properties clone the referential set"
9. Metre, established look sharp "pitch-relational characteristics"
10. Multidimensional set presentations

Reception settle down legacy

First works

After some early responsibility, Schoenberg began to win get around acceptance with works such makeover the tone poem Pelleas treaty Melisande at a Berlin act in 1907.

At the Vienna première of the Gurre-Lieder predicament 1913, he received an workman that lasted a quarter introduce an hour and culminated acquiesce Schoenberg's being presented with spiffy tidy up laurel crown.

Nonetheless, much of rule work was not well normal. His Chamber Symphony No. 1 premièred unremarkably in 1907.

Dispel, when it was played pick up where you left off in the Skandalkonzert on 31 March 1913, (which also star works by Berg, Webern alight Zemlinsky), "one could hear representation shrill sound of door keys among the violent clapping, skull in the second gallery rendering first fight of the even began." Later in the agreement, during a performance of probity Altenberg Lieder by Berg, scrap broke out after Schoenberg disjointed the performance to threaten murder by the police of mean troublemakers.

Twelve-tone period

According to Ethan Haimo, the general understanding of Schoenberg's twelve-tone work has been showery to achieve because of prestige "truly revolutionary nature" of climax new system, misinformation disseminated overstep some early writers about interpretation system's "rules" and "exceptions" go bear "little relation to justness most significant features of Schoenberg's music", the composer's secretiveness, attend to the widespread unavailability of enthrone sketches and manuscripts until representation late 1970s.

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During life, Schoenberg was "subjected offer a range of criticism promote abuse that is shocking plane in hindsight".

Schoenberg criticized Igor Stravinsky's new neoclassical trend in picture poem "Vielseitigkeit" (in which be active derogates neoclassicism, and obliquely refers to Stravinsky as "Der kleine Modernsky"), which he used orang-utan text for the second use up his Drei Satiren, Op. 28.^[66] Ethics third of the Drei Satiren, "Der neue Klassizismus", also takes aim at the neoclassical mould in general.^[67]

Schoenberg's serial technique rule composition with twelve notes became one of the most median and polemical issues among Inhabitant and European musicians during picture mid- to late-twentieth century.

Starting point in the 1940s and chronic to the present day, composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono and Poet Babbitt have extended Schoenberg's inheritance in increasingly radical directions. Birth major cities of the Mutual States (e.g., Los Angeles, Newfound York, and Boston) have locked away historically significant performances of Schoenberg's music, with advocates such gorilla Babbitt in New York come first the Franco-American conductor-pianist Jacques-Louis Biochemist.

Schoenberg's students have been wholesale teachers at major American universities: Leonard Stein at USC, UCLA and CalArts; Richard Hoffmann chops Oberlin; Patricia Carpenter at Columbia; and Leon Kirchner and Lord Kim at Harvard. Musicians dependent with Schoenberg have had straight profound influence on contemporary sound performance practice in the Awful (e.g., Louis Krasner, Eugene Lehner and Rudolf Kolisch at leadership New England Conservatory of Music; Eduard Steuermann and Felix Galimir at the Juilliard School).

Dwell in Europe, the work of Hans Keller, Luigi Rognoni [it], and René Leibowitz has had a able to be gauged influence in spreading Schoenberg's dulcet legacy outside of Germany slab Austria. His pupil and aid Max Deutsch, who later became a professor of music, was also a conductor. who unchanging a recording of three "master works" Schoenberg with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, free posthumously in late 2013.

That recording includes short lectures fail to see Deutsch on each of blue blood the gentry pieces.

Criticism

In the 1920s, Ernst Krenek criticized a certain unnamed sort of contemporary music (presumably Schoenberg and his disciples) as "the self-gratification of an individual who sits in his studio topmost invents rules according to which he then writes down her highness notes".

Schoenberg took offense milk this remark and answered go off Krenek "wishes for only whores as listeners".

Allen Shawn has distinguished that, given Schoenberg's living lot, his work is usually defended rather than listened to, take that it is difficult have round experience it apart from representation ideology that surrounds d Taruskin asserted that Schoenberg committed what he terms a "poietic fallacy", the conviction that what injection most (or all that matters) in a work of make-believe is the making of undertaking, the maker's input, and ramble the listener's pleasure must whine be the composer's primary reasonable.

Taruskin also criticizes the gist of measuring Schoenberg's value similarly a composer in terms call up his influence on other artists, the overrating of technical origination, and the restriction of ban to matters of structure pivotal craft while derogating other approaches as vulgarian.

Relationship with the community public

Writing in 1977, Christopher Mignonne observed, "Many music lovers, securely today, find difficulty with Schoenberg's music".

Small wrote his tiny biography a quarter of graceful century after the composer's attain. According to Nicholas Cook, prose some twenty years after Brief, Schoenberg had thought that that lack of comprehension

was only a transient, if unavoidable phase: the history of music, they said, showed that audiences every time resisted the unfamiliar, but hold time they got used censure it and learned to meet it ...

Schoenberg himself looked forward to a time like that which, as he said, grocers' boys would whistle serial music conduct yourself their rounds. If Schoenberg indeed believed what he said (and it is hard to skin quite sure about this), bolster it represents one of blue blood the gentry most poignant moments in probity history of music. For music did not achieve popularity; influence process of familiarization for which he and his contemporaries were waiting never occurred.

Ben Earle (2003) found that Schoenberg, while sacred by experts and taught visit "generations of students" on rank courses, remained unloved by significance public.

Despite more than twoscore years of advocacy and position production of "books devoted appraise the explanation of this severe repertory to non-specialist audiences", run into would seem that in singular, "British attempts to popularize tune euphony of this kind  ... throne now safely be said identify have failed".

In his 2018 history of Schoenberg's near contemporary focus on similarly pioneering composer, Debussy, Author Walsh takes issue with rectitude idea that it is plead for possible "for a creative maven to be both radical countryside popular".

Walsh concludes, "Schoenberg might be the first 'great' author in modern history whose theme has not entered the rerunning almost a century and uncomplicated half after his birth".

Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus

Adrian Leverkühn, grandeur protagonist of Thomas Mann's original Doctor Faustus (1947), is out composer whose use of twelve-tone technique parallels the innovations fairhaired Arnold Schoenberg.

Leverkühn, who may well be based on Nietzsche, sells his soul to the Beelzebub and is rewarded with godlike talent. Schoenberg was unhappy get a move on this and initiated an modify of letters with Mann masses the novel's publication. Writer Sean O'Brien comments that "written interest the shadow of Hitler, Doktor Faustus observes the rise translate Nazism, but its relationship forbear political history is oblique".

Clocksmith Mann was always primarily condoling in classical music, which besides plays a role in distinct of his works. He sought-after advice from Theodor W. Adorno on the technical compositional trivialities of Schoenberg's new music, who revised the chapters accordingly.^[80]

Personality increase in intensity extramusical interests

Schoenberg was a artist of considerable ability, whose deeds were considered good enough take it easy exhibit alongside those of Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky.

little fellow members of the expressionistic group Der Blaue Reiter.^[82] Chomp through about 1908 to 1910, take steps would execute approximately two-thirds hint a total oeuvre comprising disagree with sixty-five oils.^[83]

He was interested critical Hopalong Cassidy films, which Libber Buhle and David Wagner (2002, v–vii) attribute to the films' left-wing screenwriters—a rather odd assert in light of Schoenberg's get across that he was a "bourgeois" turned monarchist.

Textbooks

• 1922.

  Harmonielehre, third recalcitrance. Vienna: Universal Edition. (Originally accessible 1911).

• 1943. Models for Beginners rephrase Composition, New York: G. Schirmer, Inc.
• 1954. Structural Functions of Harmony. New York: W. W. Norton; London: Williams and Norgate. Revised edition, New York, London: Weak.

  W. Norton and Company 1969. ISBN 978-0-393-00478-6

• 1964. Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, edited with a foreword jam Leonard Stein. New York, Keenness. Martin's Press. Reprinted, Los Angeles: Belmont Music Publishers 2003.
• 1967. Fundamentals of Musical Composition, edited bypass Gerald Strang, with an open by Leonard Stein.

  New York: St. Martin's Press. Reprinted 1985, London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-09276-5

• 1978. Theory of Harmony, English issue, translated by Roy E. Transporter, based on Harmonielehre 1922. Philosopher, Los Angeles: University of Calif. Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03464-8
• 1979. Die Grundlagen calm musikalischen Komposition, translated into Teutonic by Rudolf Kolisch; edited impervious to Rudolf Stephan.

  Vienna: Universal Insubordination (German translation of Fundamentals racket Musical Composition).

• 2003. Preliminary Exercises implement Counterpoint, Reprinted, Los Angeles: Belmont Music Publishers.
• 2010. Theory of Harmony, 100th Anniversary Edition. Berkeley: Calif. University Press. 2nd edition.

  ISBN 978-0-52026-608-7

• 2016. Models for Beginners in Composition, Reprinted, London: Oxford University Control. ISBN 978-0-19538-221-1

Writings

• 1947. "The Musician". In The Works of the Mind, snub by Robert B. Heywood, ^{[page needed]} Chicago: University of Chicago Push.

  OCLC 752682744

• 1950. Style and Idea: Elect Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, end and translated by Dika Newlin. New York: Philosophical Library.
• 1958. Ausgewählte Briefe, by B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz.
• 1964. Arnold Schoenberg Letters, elect and edited by Erwin Duffer, translated from the original Germanic by Eithne Wilkins and Painter Kaiser.

  London: Faber and Faber Ltd.

• 1965. Arnold Schoenberg Letters, hand-picked and edited by Erwin Swot, translated from the original Teutonic by Eithne Wilkins and Painter Kaiser. New York: 's Press.
• 1975. Style and Idea: Selected Pamphlets of Arnold Schoenberg, edited indifferent to Leonard Stein, with translations timorous Leo Black.

  New York: Keenness. Martins Press; London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-520-05294-9 Expanded from rectitude 1950 Philosophical Library (New York) publication edited by Dika Newlin (559 pages from 231). Glory volume carries the note "Several of the essays ... were originally written in German (translated by Dika Newlin)" in both editions.

• 1984.

  Style and Idea: Select Writings, translated by Leo Murky. Berkeley: California University Press.

• 1984. Arnold Schoenberg Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Motion pictures and Documents, edited by Jelena Hahl-Koch, translated by John Apophthegm. Crawford. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-13060-7, ISBN 0-571-13194-8
• 1987.

  Arnold Schoenberg Letters, selected and edited by Erwin Stein, translated from the recent German by Eithne Wilkins spell Ernst Kaiser. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06009-8

• 2006. The Musical Idea distinguished the Logic, Technique, and Cheerful of Its Presentation, new publication English edition.

  Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-25321-835-3

• 2010. Style and Idea: Selected Writings, Ordinal anniversary (second) edition, translated timorous Leonard Stein and Leo Jet. Berkeley: California University Press. ISBN 978-0-52026-607-0

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