Schoenberg, Arnold
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD ar nolt shon berkh, 1874 1951, Austrian composer, b. Vienna. Before he became a U.S. citizen in 1941 he spelled...sextet; Gurrelieder (1900 1), a cantata for chorus and orchestra; and Pelleas und Melisande (1902 3), a symphonic poem Schoenberg expanded the chromatic style established by Wagner and Mahler . His later works are thinner in texture and highly...