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Arnold Schoenberg

1874 - 1951

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Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space". Schoenberg's early works, like Verklärte Nacht (1899), represented a Brahmsian–Wagnerian synthesis on which he built. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Schoenberg is the 52nd most popular composer (up from 58th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Austria (up from 45th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Composer.

Arnold Schoenberg is most famous for being the father of atonal music.

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Among composers, Arnold Schoenberg ranks 52 out of 1,451. Before him are Tomaso Albinoni, Modest Mussorgsky, Anton Bruckner, Guido of Arezzo, Stefania Turkewich, and Vincenzo Bellini. After him are Edward Elgar, Georg Philipp Telemann, Aram Khachaturian, Carl Maria von Weber, Guillaume Du Fay, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

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Among people born in 1874, Arnold Schoenberg ranks 5. Before him are Winston Churchill, Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Frost, and W. Somerset Maugham. After him are Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, and Sunjong of Korea. Among people deceased in 1951, Arnold Schoenberg ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, André Gide, and Philippe Pétain. After him are Ferdinand Porsche, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Arnold Sommerfeld, Abdullah I of Jordan, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, René Guénon, and Hermann Broch.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Arnold Schoenberg ranks 38 out of 1,424. Before him are Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552), Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747), Johann Strauss I (1804), Anton Bruckner (1824), Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578), and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640). After him are Herbert von Karajan (1908), Egon Schiele (1890), Konrad Lorenz (1903), Viktor Frankl (1905), Hedy Lamarr (1914), and Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Arnold Schoenberg ranks 7. Before him are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756), Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Johann Strauss II (1825), Johann Strauss I (1804), and Anton Bruckner (1824). After him are Anton Webern (1883), Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791).

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