ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

BORN IN VIENNA ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1874

He was born in on September 13 and lived until JULY 13 1951. Vienna, Austria is where he was born.

ARNOLDS LIFE

1874:  On 13 September, Arnold Schoenberg was born in Vienna to Pauline and Samuel

1889: Death of his father from pneumonia1891: Schoenberg joined Polyhymnia, the orchestra1898: Converted to Lutheranism1906: Laid the foundation for the emergence of

modern music1908: Schoenberg's first performance of legendary

'Scandal Concert'1916: Schoenberg went back to Berlin1923: His wife Mathilde died

Time line

Arnold Schoenberg was married to Alexander de Zemlinsky’s sister Mathilde and they raised two children. In 1923, his wife Mathilde died and he married Getrud Kolisch, after ten months. They had three children. During this time, he began working on his new opera, ‘Moses und Aron’ that was titled as ‘Moses und Aaron’.

His lifeSchoenberg was a Jew and as a result, had to move out of Berlin because of the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933. Hence relocated to the US, stayed in Los Angeles for the rest of his life, and taught at the University of Southern California and at UCLA.

He became a naturalized citizen in the year 1941. He remained an undecipherable piece of genius even after he tried to blend traditional classical music with the twelve-tone series. Towards the last period of his life, he composed religious pieces including. A Survivor from Warsaw. 

1923: Married Getrud Kolish, sister of Rudolf Kolish1933: Schoenberg moved to U.S because of the rise of the

Nazi Party1933: Converted to Judaism1936: String Quartet No. 41935: 1936: Violin Concerto1935 - 1936: Professor at the University of Southern

California1936 - 1944: Professor at the University of California at Los

Angeles1941: Became naturalized citizen of U.S.1942: Composed his ‘Piano Concerto’1949: Composed ‘Fantasy for Violin and Piano’1951: Schoenberg died on July 13

Timeline

His music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veUJxETj7-c&feature=player_detailpage

Schoenberg's first American teaching post was at the Malkin Conservatory in Boston in 1933he got sick from the weather, and he decided to move to Los Angeles. There, he taught first at the University of Southern California and then at the University of California, but he was to old to work at 1944. He wrote some of his finest instrumental music in California: the Fourth String Quartet (1936), the Violin Concerto (1934-1936), the Piano Concerto (1942), and the String Trio (1946).

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Sites

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