Schoenberg — Schoenberg, Arnold (1874 1951) an Austrian ↑composer who went to the US in 1933. He invented the twelve tone system of writing modern music, in which music is written around a set of twelve notes of a ↑Chromatic ↑scale. His system has influenced… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Schoenberg — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Schoenberg est habituellement la graphie française et anglaise de Schönberg. Arnold Schoenberg (1874 1951) est un compositeur et théoricien autrichien.… … Wikipédia en Français
Schoenberg — n. family name; Arnold Schoenberg (1874 1951), Austrian composer, creator of the twelve tone composition technique … English contemporary dictionary
Schoenberg — noun United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874 1951) • Syn: ↑Schonberg, ↑Arnold Schonberg, ↑Arnold Schoenberg • Instance Hypernyms: ↑composer … Useful english dictionary
SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD — (1874–1951), composer, teacher, and theorist; discoverer of the method of composition with twelve tones related to one another as he himself described it. Born to an Orthodox family in Vienna, Schoenberg became converted to Christianity in 1898… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Schoenberg, Matthias von — • Author, b. at Ehingen, in the Diocese of Constance, 9 Nov., 1732; d. at Munich, 20 Apr., 1792 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 … Catholic encyclopedia
SCHOENBERG, ALEXANDER JULIUS WILHELM — (1892–1985), German organic chemist. From 1927 to 1934 he was professor of organic chemistry at the Berlin Charlottenburg Polytechnicum. Forced to leave Germany, he spent three years in the department of Medical Chemistry of the University of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Schoenberg, Arnold — ▪ American composer Introduction Schoenberg also spelled Schönberg born September 13, 1874, Vienna died July 13, 1951, Los Angeles Austrian American composer who created a new method of composition based on a row, or series (serialism), of 12… … Universalium
Schoenberg, Arnold — (1874 1951) composer and teacher; leader of the New Vienna School consisting of Schoenberg and his students Alban Berg and Anton von Webern and arguably the pioneer in twentieth century music* composition. Born in Vienna to Jewish parents… … Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik
Schoenberg, Arnold — (1874–1951) Among the 20th century’s major musical innovators, Schoenberg was largely self taught. His first compositions, heavily influenced by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942), who eventually married Schoenberg’s sister, were lushly tonal in… … Historical dictionary of Austria