Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, US also ; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k] (listen); 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. As a Jewish composer, Schoenberg was targeted by the Nazi Party, which labeled his works as degenerate music and forbade them from being published. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941. Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, has shaped much of 20th-century musical thought. Many composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whereas others have passionately reacted against it. Schoenberg was known early in his career for simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify innovations in atonality (although Schoenberg himself detested that term) that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century classical music. In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, an influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea. Schoenberg was also an influential teacher of composition; his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Egon Wellesz, Nikos Skalkottas and later John Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, Robert Gerhard, Leon Kirchner, Dika Newlin, Oscar Levant, and other prominent musicians. Many of Schoenberg's practices, including the formalization of compositional method and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century. His often polemical views of music history and aesthetics were crucial to many significant 20th-century musicologists and critics, including Theodor W. Adorno, Charles Rosen, and Carl Dahlhaus, as well as the pianists Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, Eduard Steuermann, and Glenn Gould. Schoenberg's archival legacy is collected at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna. |
Birth and Death Data: Born September 13, 1874 (Vienna), Died July 13, 1951 (Los Angeles)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1929 - 1938
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, arranger
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 53 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | CSHQ-71674 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71675 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71676 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71677 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71678 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71679 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71680 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71681 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71682 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71683 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski ; Jeannette Vreeland | Orchestra and soprano and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71684 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71685 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71686 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Rose Bampton ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and contralto vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71687 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Rose Bampton ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and contralto vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71688 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Rose Bampton ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and contralto vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71689 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71690 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Abrasha Robofsky ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor and bass vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71691 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Fortnightly Club ; Mendelssohn Glee Club ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Princeton University Glee Club ; Abrasha Robofsky ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and bass vocal solo and male vocal chorus | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71692 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Fortnightly Club ; Mendelssohn Glee Club ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Princeton University Glee Club ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and male vocal chorus | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71693 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71694 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Robert Betts ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71695 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Robert Betts ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solos | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71696 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Paul Althouse ; Fortnightly Club ; Mendelssohn Glee Club ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Princeton University Glee Club ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and tenor vocal solo and male vocal chorus | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71697 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Fortnightly Club ; Mendelssohn Glee Club ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Princeton University Glee Club ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and male vocal chorus | composer | |
Victor | CSHQ-71698 | 12-in. | 4/8/1932 | Gurre-Lieder | Benjamin De Loache ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra and recitation | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Schoenberg, Arnold," accessed November 4, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102726.
Schoenberg, Arnold. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 4, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102726.
"Schoenberg, Arnold." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 4 November 2024.
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