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

Like Schoenberg before him, the Russian émigré composer tried but failed to get a lucrative contract scoring a Hollywood film.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

Schoenberg no doubt attended movies in what is now the Nimoy, which was a movie theater until its recent renovation as a performing space for UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

One thing is for sure: Schoenberg and his fellow-travellers in the redesigning of the Western note system were not courting a mainstream audience.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall