Biography
Arnold Schönberg was born in 1874 in Vienna and fundamentally changed music history through the development of the twelve-tone method. Initially self-taught, he became the founder of the Second Viennese School and the teacher of such significant composers as Alban Berg and Anton Webern. His opera Moses und Aron is among the intellectually most demanding works of music theatre and addresses the question of the representability of the divine. With the melodrama Pierrot lunaire and the Gurre-Lieder he created key works of musical modernism. After the Nazi seizure of power, Schönberg emigrated in 1933 to the USA, where he taught at UCLA in Los Angeles. His influence on twentieth-century music can hardly be overestimated, even though his works always remained controversial with the broader public. Schönberg died in 1951 in Los Angeles.
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