2. He was born in on September 13 and lived until JULY 13 1951. Vienna, Austria is where he was born.

3. 1874: On 13 September, Arnold Schoenberg was born in Vienna to Pauline and Samuel 1889: Death of his father from pneumonia 1891: Schoenberg joined Polyhymnia, the orchestra 1898: Converted to Lutheranism 1906: Laid the foundation for the emergence of modern music 1908: Schoenberg's first performance of legendary 'Scandal Concert' 1916: Schoenberg went back to Berlin 1923: His wife Mathilde died

4. Arnold Schoenberg was married to Alexander de Zemlinsky’s sister Mathilde and they raised two children. In 1923, his wife Mathilde died and he married Getrud Kolisch, after ten months. They had three children. During this time, he began working on his new opera, ‘Moses und Aron’ that was titled as ‘Moses und Aaron’.

5. Schoenberg was a Jew and as a result, had to move out of Berlin because of the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933. Hence relocated to the US, stayed in Los Angeles for the rest of his life, and taught at the University of Southern California and at UCLA. He became a naturalized citizen in the year 1941. He remained an undecipherable piece of genius even after he tried to blend traditional classical music with the twelve-tone series. Towards the last period of his life, he composed religious pieces including. A Survivor from Warsaw.

6. 1923: Married Getrud Kolish, sister of Rudolf Kolish 1933: Schoenberg moved to U.S because of the rise of the Nazi Party 1933: Converted to Judaism 1936: String Quartet No. 4 1935: 1936: Violin Concerto 1935 - 1936: Professor at the University of Southern California 1936 - 1944: Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles 1941: Became naturalized citizen of U.S. 1942: Composed his ‘Piano Concerto’ 1949: Composed ‘Fantasy for Violin and Piano’ 1951: Schoenberg died on July 13 Birth of Modern Music The year 1906 is marked as one of the several beginnings of modern music. It was a shock that Schoenberg’s first performance of the legendary ‘scandal concert’ in 1908 was received with lack of understanding by the press as well as the public. People dissed Schoenberg even while he performed, while the reporters rushed to their offices to regard Schoenberg as ‘insane’. Schoenberg felt that his work and his changed styles were misinterpreted in the wrong way and it took him some time to figure out the solution to the structural problems of the nontonal music. His confidence in his words can be well perceived from the statement he once made, “Today, I have discovered something, which will assure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years.” Schoenberg travelled back to Berlin in the year 1916 to conduct some of his pieces. It was during this time that he began pondering and experimenting on various possibilities of his compositions. For example, he mixed conventional speech in a piece ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ along with singing that resulted in a different way of vocalization. He varied the technique from chamber works such as ‘String Quartet No. 4’ in 1936, ‘Fantasy for Violin and Piano’ in 1949 and it also extended up to the orchestral works like the ‘Violin Concerto’ (1935-1936) and the ‘Piano Concerto’ in 1942. The choral works like ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ also exhibited a different technique. In Berlin, he first began composing his twelve-tone series, which is also known as dodecaphony. Such types of compositions were included as a part of a larger group referred to as ‘serialism’ where the compositions were more of mathematical rather than original.

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veUJxETj7- c&feature=player_detailpage Schoenberg's first American teaching post was at the Malkin Conservatory in Boston in 1933he got sick from the weather, and he decided to move to Los Angeles. There, he taught first at the University of Southern California and then at the University of California, but he was to old to work at 1944. He wrote some of his finest instrumental music in California: the Fourth String Quartet (1936), the Violin Concerto (1934- 1936), the Piano Concerto (1942), and the String Trio (1946).

8. Http://www.last.fm/musci/+free-music- downloads/classicals http://www.bookrags.com/biography/arnold- schoenberg/