Arnold Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874[1], in Vienna[2]. He died on July 13, 1951[3], in Los Angeles[4]. He worked as a classical composer[5], painter[6], musicologist[7], music theorist[8], and writer[9]. He ranks in the top 0.59% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,683 views/month, #5,870 of 1,000,298).[10]
Student: Josef Rufer[30], Alban Berg[31], Viktor Ullmann[32], Hanns Eisler[33], Paul Pisk[34], Winfried Zillig[35], Ernst Krenek[36], John Cage[37], Anton Webern[38], Egon Wellesz[39]
Notable work: Erwartung[40], Verklärte Nacht[41], A Survivor from Warsaw[42], Coalition Chess[43]
Award received: Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music[44]
Things named for Arnold Schoenberg include Schoenberg[61] and Schoenberg Prize[62].
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Arnold Schoenberg has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[63] He is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.[64]
He has been cited as an influence by Trevor Rabin[65], a composer[66], b. 1954[67], of South Africa[68], specialised in film score[69]; Pierre Boulez[70], a conductor[71], 1925–2016[72], of France[73], awarded the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres[74], specialised in music[75]; and Charles Rosen[76], a pianist[77], 1927–2012[78], of United States[79], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[80].
He is credited with the discovery of twelve-tone technique[81], a music genre[82], founded in 1923[83]. Entities named for him include Schoenberg[61] and Schoenberg Prize[62].
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