ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Austrian Composer (1874-1951) Arnold Schoenberg free midi download

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
13^th September 1874 --- 13^rd July 1951

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Was born of Jewish parents in Vienna. His father was a prosperous shopkeeper and his mother gave
piano lessons. He gave early indications of his musical talent, writing his first compositions when he was seventeen. Although he
took some lessons in counterpoint from the Polish-born conductor and composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, his future brother-in-law
who was only two years his senior, he was virtually self-taught.

His beginnings were difficult, he was obliged to support himself by hack work, orchestrating the light operettas of other composers.
In 1901 he was in Berlin as conductor of the Buntes Theater, and while there received the Liszt prize at the instigation of Richard
Strauss. But in 1903 he returned to Vienna to teach.

During his eight years in Vienna, as a conductor, as well as a teacher, he became the friend of Mahler and attracted Berg and Webern
into his circle of pupils. In 1911 Strauss provided him with the opportunity of returning to Berlin as teacher of composition at the
Stern conservatory. In 1912 his Pierrot Lunaire, for 'speechsong', piano and flute, finally drew public attention to his work. But his
creative activities were interrupted for some ten years, first by his theoretical researches and secondly by his service (1914-17) in
the First World War.

In 1921 he broke his long silence and published his Twelve Note System of Composition which is also illusstrated with examples of
his very own works. In 1925 he was appointed professor of composition at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, in succession to Busoni.
Henceforth his influence extended over all Europe.

When the Nazis came to power he then left Germany, he took refuge for a while in Spain then in Paris, where his presence remained
unnoticed. He had become a convert to Roman Catholicism, but in 1933 he reverted to his original faith as a mark of solidarity with
the Jewish victims of Hitlers mass persecution. In 1934 he travelled to the United States where he was successively professor at the
Malkin Conservatory of Boston and then director of the department of music as the University of California, Los Angeles (1936 - 44).

The end of his life was marked by financial difficulties, and work became more and more arduous for him due to his delicate health
and failing eyesight. He died in Los Angeles in 1951.

Along with Debussy and Stravinsky, Schoenberg was one of the great musicians responsible for the precipitate evolution which was
to change the face of European music at the beginning of the 20th century. His early works, up to about the year 1907, are strongly
tinged with Romanticism in the idiom of Wagner, Brahms and Mahler though he pushes still further their use of chromatic harmonies
while still making use of key signatures.

By degrees, however, these disappear from his work as his music progresses from athematic to radically atonal compositions. Finally
in the year 1912, when Schoenberg was thirty-eight, all pretence of key is abandoned.
Extract from "The Larousee Encyclopedia of Music"
Last Updated on 2020
By Steven Ritchie

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