Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian composer and painter, best known as the (putative) innovator of the twelve-tone technique. Leader of the Second Viennese School. Born 13 September 1874 in Vienna, Austria as Arnold Schönberg, emigrated to the US in 1933 and changed his name to Arnold Schoenberg. He died 13 July 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Starting from the exasperated Wagnerian chromatism of the Tristan with the sextet for string…