Schoenberg

British  

/ ˈʃɜːnbɜːɡ, ˈʃøːnbɛrk /

noun

1. Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron

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Example Sentences

“The 1930s were a peak moment where the greatest, most innovative jazz had a large place in the commercial popular-music world,” says Loren Schoenberg, senior scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

She had a four-octave vocal range and the ability to perform everything from Schoenberg to a Spike Milligan hit about a man with too many tonsils.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

Omar Ebrahim’s imposing and magnificently sung Schoenberg is well-suited for visionary gravitas, less so for slapstick.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

The 90-minute opera is basically a phantasmagoria of how Schoenberg got here.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

Of all his impressionable Viennese pupils, none embraced this dismantling of tonality quite as enthusiastically as Arnold Schoenberg.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall