Arnold Schoenberg Summary

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an Austrian composer whose discovery of the "method of composition with twelve tones" radically transformed 20th-century music.The early music of Arnold Schoenberg re... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1928, Rosenfeld discusses the connection between Schoenberg and Edgard Varèse. … [They] played Europe and the New World off against each ... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in Perspectives of New Music in 1977, Rufer examines the relevance of Schoenberg's music and theory to contemporary audiences. Anyone for whom mu... Read more

In the following essay, which was originally published in 1978, Dalhaus discusses Schoenberg's essays that reveal the aesthetic sense upon which he based his musical compositions. I In �... Read more

In the following essay, Christensen explains the system of philosophy underlying all of Schoenberg's work. Preserved in the archive of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles is a col... Read more

In the following essay, Smith provides an overview of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method. Several Viennese composers outside of the Schoenberg circle were concerned with repeated pitch structur... Read more

In the following essay, Schulze examines the influence of Schoenberg's musical theory on the works of Virginia Woolf Academics, alas, can be surprisingly narrow-minded. Shaped by our institu... Read more

In the following essay, Gilbert discusses the relationship between Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. I In a series of conversations with GDR scholar/journalist Hans Bunge, published under the title Frag... Read more

In the following essay, Lacoue-Labarthe discusses the religious undercurrents in Schoenberg's work. No doubt, it is not impossible to say that Wagner fundamentally saturated opera. A proof o... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in The Score in 1952, Sessions analyzes Schoenberg's twelve-tone compositional method. Arnold Schoenberg sometimes said, "A Chinese philos... Read more

In the following essay, Thomson reviews Arnold Schoenberg Letters, finding notable the book's portrayal of Schoenberg as an artist. In 1910 Arnold Schoenberg, then thirty-five, began to keep... Read more

In the following essay, Steiner analyzes the relationship between music and language in Schoenberg 's Moses and Aaron. It is difficult to conceive of a work in which music and language inter... Read more

In the following essay, Lessem associates Schoenberg 's creative crisis with the early-twentieth-century Expressionist movement. In Arnold Schönberg's published writings, as well... Read more