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| − | [[Arnold Schönberg]] - also spelled Schoenberg - (September 13, 1874, [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] - July 13, 1951, [[Los Angeles]], USA) is name-checked on the cover of "[[Freak Out!]]" (1966) under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them". He is also mentioned in "[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]" (1989). | + | #REDIRECT[[Arnold Schoenberg]] |
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| − | [[Arnold Schoenberg]] and his pupils [[Anton von Webern]] (1883-1945) and [[Alban Berg]] (1885-1935) are known as the Second Viennese School. [[Arnold Schoenberg| Schoenberg]] was the first to experiment with atonality.
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| − | Composer, artist, music teacher. He was largely self-taught, and in his 20s lived by orchestrating operettas while composing such early works as the string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" (1899, "Transfigured Night"). His search for a personal musical style emerged in these works, which were not well received: his Chamber Symphony caused a riot at its first performance in 1907 through its abandonment of the traditional concept of tonality.
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| − | He became known for his concept of "12-note" or "serial" music, used in most of his later works. At the end of World War I he taught in [[Vienna]] and [[Berlin]], until exiled by the Nazi government in 1933. He settled in [[California]] in 1934, and took US nationality in 1941. Started teaching at [[UCLA]] in 1936.
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| − | Some of his masterpieces: "Pierrot Lunaire" (1912) and "Erwartung" (1909).
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| − | In [[Arnold Schoenberg| Schoenberg]]’s second String Quartet (1908) the singer sings, "I breathe the air of another planet", something that reminds us of FZ’s work.
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| − | [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]
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