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.
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.
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
There are no more geniuses, only critics.
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
Rests always sound well.