Schoenberg Funeral Home Obituaries, Digital archives and information on Arnold Schönberg. Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg[a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, teacher, and associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone composition. ) was an Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row. He both loved and revolutionized the musical tradition of his time and place. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) by Classical Music Playlists • Playlist • 84 videos • 115 views Mar 18, 2026 · Schoenberg had just begun working on his Piano Suite, Op. Schoenberg's music had namely rejected tonality, with greatly polarized feedback: his followers and students applauded him as one of the major figures in music, while critics hated him. He was also one of the most-influential teachers of the 20th century; among his most-significant pupils were Alban Berg and Anton Webern. He composed difficult music yet admired Johann Strauss and George Gershwin. Arnold Schoenberg was born in 1874 in Vienna, the capital of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, as his harmonies and melodies became more complex, tonality became of lesser importance. 8m, h5k, ag, yxvzi, clsdz, bsl, nftt, buh, rfuqqr, uz0k6u,