Arnold Schoenberg was born in Vienna on 22 March 1874, the son of a wealthy banker. He studied at the Vienna Conservatorium, where he also began exploring the music of Wagner and Strauss. In 1896 he went to Berlin to study at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but his musical career was interrupted by a period of ill health. He returned to Vienna in 1898, where he continued to study composition, experimenting with atonalism and serialism
His first work "Pierrot Lunaire" was performed by the Vienna Opera Company in 1910. For many years Schoenberg experimented with atonalism, serialism and twelve-tone technique, but eventually abandoned these experiments in favour of what he called the 'organic' style.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.Arnold Schoenberg
Rests always sound well.Arnold Schoenberg
Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.Arnold Schoenberg
