On the morning of Jan. 7, Larry Schoenberg was about to prepare the tax filings for Belmont Music Publishers, the august house dedicated to preserving and promoting the works of his late father, ...

Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire (1912) is regarded by many as the first masterpiece of his illustrious career. Pierrot lunaire brought back the long, dormant musical form of the melodrama, and ...

This Thursday, piano and composition students will celebrate the musical legacy of avant-garde composer Arnold Schoenberg. The concert, which is part of the ongoing celebration of the 150th ...

Portrait of Austrian-born American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), New York, New York, 1949. (Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images) Review by Michael Dirda Half a century ago, Arnold Schoenberg ...

Editor’s note: Arnold Schoenberg was born on this day in 1874. 145 years later, we look back at the genius of the Austrian Jewish composer. What happens in the mind of a genius? Mozart’s mind was ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

Among several historic musical anniversaries celebrated this year—including the centenary of “Rhapsody in Blue”—an easily overlooked one especially deserves mention, since it marked an artistic ...

Commentators on modern music have long undervalued the Vienna-born composer Arnold Schoenberg’s years in America, from 1934 until his death in 1951. Admittedly, there were some disappointments, such ...

I’d say that anyone who has listened to Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël has started down the classical Christmas rabbit hole. Now, let’s go a bit further down. A Symphony of Carols by Victor ...

What is music? From John Cage to Legendary Stardust Cowboy. What is music? From John Cage to Legendary Stardust Cowboy, avant-garde artists have forever been pushing on the edges of what is considered ...

A common process contributes to organizing the interval structures in both tonal music and the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg, a process he called "developing variation." This article shows how ...