In his art, composer Arnold Schonberg was always eager to embrace the new and the unfamiliar. A characteristic feature of his music around 1910 was a quest for analogous forms in other media, a search which led him to shift from music to painting. The expressionist paintings he produced during this period garnered glowing praise from Kandinsky--and have lost none of their extraordinary power today, though they are rarely exhibited. Focusing on his self portraits and abstract works, this publication provides a welcome, analytic, and extensive view of Schonberg's highly influential and visionary oeuvre.
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Arnold Schonberg, born in Vienna in 1874, was one of the leading composers of the 20th century. He revolutionized modern music by abandoning tonality and developing a 12-tone, serial technique of composition. In 1918 he founded his famous private seminar in composition and the Society for Private Musical Performances, at which neither critics nor applause were allowed. Though he himself had little formal instruction in music, teaching was a major activity throughout his life, and he taught at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, and the University of Southern California, Hollywood and Los Angeles, counting John Cage, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern among his students. He died in Los Angeles in 1951.
Max Hollein is the director of the Schirn Kunstahalle, Germany and was the United States Commissioner to the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Max Hollein is the director of the Schirn Kunstahalle, Germany and was the United States Commissioner to the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale.
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