Arnold Schoenberg

Biography

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874, in Vienna. He was an Austrian and American composer, pedagogue, musicologist, conductor, and publicist. Schoenberg founded the Second Viennese School and became one of the leading representatives of musical expressionism. Among his achievements are the development of dodecaphony, the twelve-tone technique, and the creation of serialism. His works span genres such as opera, serialism, classical music, expressionism, dodecaphony, 20th-century academic music, and atonality. The composer’s biography includes notable works such as "Erwartung" ("Expectation"), "Verklärte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night"), "Survivor from Warsaw," and "Coalition Chess." Schoenberg was active artistically in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, Austria, and the United States. He died on July 13, 1951, in Los Angeles.