Arnold Schoenberg

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composer conductor human music theorist teacher

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer and theorist who pioneered the twelve-tone technique and became one of the most influential and controversial figures in 20th-century music.

Aliases (2)

Arnold Schönberg ×2
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg ×1

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	composer → conductor → human → music theorist → teacher →
alternateName	Arnold Schönberg →
birthCountry	Austria-Hungary →
birthDate	1874-09-13 →
birthPlace	Vienna →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
citizenship	Austria → United States of America →
convertedTo	Lutheranism →
deathCountry	United States of America →
deathDate	1951-07-13 →
deathPlace	Los Angeles →
deathState	California →
employer	Prussian Academy of Arts → University of California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California →
era	20th-century music →
exiledFrom	Germany →
field	music composition → music theory →
founded	Second Viennese School →
fullName	Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg →
genre	chamber music → choral music → opera → orchestral music →
influenced	Alban Berg → Anton Webern → Igor Stravinsky → Karlheinz Stockhausen → Milton Babbitt → Olivier Messiaen → Pierre Boulez →
influencedBy	Gustav Mahler → Johannes Brahms → Richard Wagner →
knownFor	atonality → serialism → twelve-tone technique →
language	German →
movement	Second Viennese School →
notableStudent	Alban Berg → Anton Webern → Hanns Eisler → John Cage →
notableWork	A Survivor from Warsaw → Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 → Gurre-Lieder → Moses und Aron → Pierrot Lunaire → String Quartet No. 2 → Suite for Piano, Op. 25 → Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 → Verklärte Nacht →
occupation	composer → music theorist → painter → teacher →
pioneerOf	emancipation of the dissonance → twelve-tone composition →
reasonForExile	Nazi persecution of Jews →
reconvertedTo	Judaism →
relative	Alexander von Zemlinsky →
religion	Judaism →
spouse	Gertrud Kolisch → Mathilde Zemlinsky →
stylePeriod	Expressionism → Late Romantic → Modernism →
taught	composition →
taughtAt	Berlin → Los Angeles → Vienna →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gustav Mahler → Johannes Brahms →	influenced
Arnold Schoenberg ("Arnold Schönberg") →	alternateName
Vienna Central Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Arnold Schoenberg ("Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg") →	fullName
Der Blaue Reiter ("Arnold Schönberg") →	hasMember
Theodor W. Adorno →	influencedBy
Modernism →	notableFigure