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Vote: | As a painter I was asolutely an amateur; I had no theoretical training and only a little esthetic training, and this only from general education, but not from an education which pertained to painting. In music it was different. |
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Vote: | At this time I was able to draw a circle which deviated very little from when you checked it with a compass. I could draw really very well, but I think I lost this capacity. But I had the idea that this sense of measurement, of measurements, is one of the capacities of a composer, of an artist. It is probably the basis of correct balance and logic within, if you have a strict feeling of the sizes and their mutual relationship. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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! |
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Vote: | I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - but at least two or three decades. |
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Arnold Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows.
Biography Schoenberg was largely self-taught, taking lessons only with Alexander von Zemlinsky who was to become his first brother-in-law. In his twenties, he lived by orchestrating operettas while composing works such as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") in 1899. He later made an orchestral version of this, which has come to be one of his most popular pieces. Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg's significance as a composer: Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. Mahler adopted Schoenberg as a protégé and worried about who would look after him after his death. Schoenberg was influenced by Mahler, championed his work, and considered Mahler a "saint".
Summer 1908, when his wife Mathilde left him for an affair with young Austrian painter Richard Gerstl, marks a distinct change in Schoenberg's work. It was during the absence of his wife that he composed "You lean against a silver-willow" (German: Du lehnest wider eine Silberweide), the first piece without any reference at all to a key.
Another of his most important works from this period is Pierrot Lunaire of 1912, a cycle of songs set to a text by Albert Giraud that was unlike anything that preceded it. Utilizing the technique of Sprechstimme, or speak-singing recitation, the work pairs a female singer, in a Pierrot costume, with a small orchestra of 5 (nowadays sometimes 6) musicians, which plays a different instrumental combination in each of the songs.
Later, Schoenberg was to create the twelve-tone method of composition (which later grew into serialism). This technique was taken up by many of his students, who consistuted the so-called Second Viennese School. They included Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Hanns Eisler, who were greatly influenced by Schoenberg. Schoenberg excelled as a teacher of music, partly through his method of engaging with, analyzing, and transmitting the methods of the great classical composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, partly through his focus on bringing out the musical and compositional individuality of his students. He published a number of books, ranging from his famous Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony) to Fundamentals of Musical Composition, many of which are still in print and still used by musicians and developing composers.
He was forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933 and moved to the United States. He worked at the Malkin Conservatory in Boston, then at the University of Southern California and the University of California in Los Angeles. In 1944, he became naturalized citizen. In 1951, he died.
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