Arnold Schoenberg

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This paper discusses the background and achievements of Austrian composer, Arnold Schoenberg. The paper discusses the Schoenberg's controversial methods of composing and describes why some people go as far as not to recognize it as music at all. It describes his life and then focuses on specific pieces that he composed. The paper presents the writer's view of Schoenberg's compositions.

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"Few composers during the early twentieth century, let alone any other monumental musical era, had the originality, boldness or intelligence needed to create such a wonderful piece of music Schoenberg was able to craft and formulate. His individualism allowed him to go beyond the norm for composers of his time. With his combination or sheer brilliance and determination, he broke a system of tonal organization that had developed over hundreds of years and had become a landmark of Western music. The fact that his talents did not stop as a composer but furthermore as a teacher, pupil of his profession, painter and more, made him as a unique individual as the world had seen to date. Schoenberg himself expressed the importance of creating your own path, "The artist does nothing that others deem beautiful, but rather only what to him is a necessity." That quote lingers in my head over and over again. The simplicity, in which he states an idea that would take many artists a lifetime to conjure, is simply astounding, and the more one learns about this mans life, the more you find yourself coming to terms with the notion that his intellectual brilliance does not impede there."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Frisch, Walter. Schoenberg and His World. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.
• Frisch, Walter. The Early Work of Arnold Schoenberg. England: University of California Press, 1993.
• Schoenberg Archives. 26 March. 2006. http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/schoenberg/
• Schoenberg, Arnold. 20th Century Classics. Conducted by Berg Webern, Polydor International GMBH, 1973. (Berg: CD.6)/1974.

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