Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was a Jewish Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. With the rise of the Nazi Party, by 1938 Schoenberg's works were labelled as degenerate music because he was Jewish; he moved to the United States in 1934...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth13 September 1874
CountryAustria
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
My music is not lovely
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.
There are no more geniuses, only critics.