Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold ... music we are used to hearing today. His String Quartet No. 2 (1907/1908) is considered an early milestone of atonal ...

Why? Schoenberg was frustrated by what he saw as the limitations of current musical language. What Wagner and others had been hinting at, he now openly embraced: music that, for the first time, had no ...

After the Nazis came to power, Schoenberg emigrated to the United States. On his way there, in 1933, he underwent a rite of ...