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Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer, born in Vienna in 1874, who worked in Vienna and Berlin before emigrating to the United States in 1933 and settling in Los Angeles. A leading figure of musical modernism, his output spans orchestral works, chamber music, vocal and choral compositions, operas, and film scores, moving from late-Romantic beginnings through free atonality to his own twelve-tone method of composition. He died in Los Angeles in 1951 of heart failure.
Schoenberg revolutionized twentieth-century music through his development of the twelve-tone technique and his pioneering of atonality and musical expressionism, freeing composition from traditional tonal constraints. As founder of the Second Viennese School, whose members included his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, he profoundly shaped subsequent generations of composers, including later serialists such as Milton Babbitt and Pierre Boulez, and remains a central figure in the history of modern classical music.
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Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 – V. Adagio
Symphonic Poem “Pelléas et Mélisande”, Op. 5: love scene and farewell
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part I – 4. Eine blasse Wäscherin— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part I – 5. Valse de Chopin— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part II – 7. Der kranke Mond— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part II – 8. Nacht – Passacaglia— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part II – 9. Gebet an Pierrot— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part III – 18. Der Mondfleck— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21: Part III – 21. O alter Duft— Pinchas Zukerman
Performed by Pinchas Zukerman
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: 1. Sehr langsam (bar 1)— Janine Jansen
Performed by Janine Jansen
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: 3. Schwer betont (bar 201)— Janine Jansen
Performed by Janine Jansen
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: 4. Sehr breit und langsam (bar 229)— Janine Jansen
Performed by Janine Jansen
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: 5. Sehr ruhig (bar 370)— Janine Jansen
Performed by Janine Jansen
Suite for Piano, Op. 25: II. Gavotte – Etwas langsam, nicht hastig— Charles Rosen
Performed by Charles Rosen
Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: 1. Leicht, zart— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: 3. Sehr langsame— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: 4. Rasch, aber leicht— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: 5. Etwas rasch— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: 6. Sehr langsam— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 29: 1. Ouverture. Allegretto. Sehr flott— Yvonne Loriod
Performed by Yvonne Loriod
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42: IV. Giocoso. Moderato— Mitsuko Uchida
Performed by Mitsuko Uchida
Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (Arr. for Flute & Piano by Felix Greissle) : I. Schwungvoll— Bruno Canino
Performed by Bruno Canino
Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (Arr. for Flute & Piano by Felix Greissle) : II. Anmutig und heiter,…— Bruno Canino
Performed by Bruno Canino
Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (Arr. for Flute & Piano by Felix Greissle) : III. Etwas langsam— Bruno Canino
Performed by Bruno Canino
Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (Arr. for Flute & Piano by Felix Greissle) : IV. Rondo— Bruno Canino
Performed by Bruno Canino
2 Balladen, Op. 12: No. 2, Der verlorene Haufen— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 2 Balladen, Op.12: No. 2, Der verlorene Haufen— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dank ‘Großes hast du mir gegeben’ (1898) , aus: Lieder Op.1 No.1— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 1, Erwartung— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 2, Die Aufgeregten— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 2, Die Aufgeregten— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 5, Geübtes Herz— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 5, Geübtes Herz— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 8 Lieder, Op. 6: No. 4, Verlassen— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 3 Lieder, Op. 48: No. 1, Sommermüd— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 3 Lieder, Op. 48: No. 2, Tot— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Abschied ‘Aus den Trümmern einer hohen Schönheit’ (1898) , aus: Lieder op.1 No.2— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Trio in A minor for piano, clarinet and cello: IV. Allegro— Zoltán Kocsis
Performed by Zoltán Kocsis
Schoenberg: 2 Lieder, Op. 14: No. 1, Ich darf nicht dankend— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 2, Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 1, Wie Georg von Frundsberg von sich selber sang— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
7 Frühe Lieder: No. 7, Deinem Blick mich zu bequemen— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
8 Lieder, Op. 6: No. 8, Der Wanderer— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
2 Lieder, Op. 14: No. 2, Ich darf nicht dankend— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Schoenberg: 3 Folksongs, Op. 49 (1948): Mein Herz in steten Treuen— Hermann Prey
Performed by Hermann Prey
String Quartet No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: IV. Entrückung— Andreas Scholl
Performed by Andreas Scholl
String Quartet No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: III. Litanei— Andreas Scholl
Performed by Andreas Scholl