September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Arnold Schoenberg is considered one of the most influential (and controversial) 20th-century composers. He is best remembered for creating a new system of tonality, but his body of music actually represented a journey that touched on many forms and eventually came full circle.
As a composer, Schoenberg was almost completely self-taught. His early works such as Verklarte Nacht echoed the late German Romanticism of his day; from there he gravitated toward musical expressionism, echoing the distorted imagery of expressionist art just as Debussy had done with impressionism. ...
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