I always considered Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone, atonal music pretentious noise. But I’ve been forced to change my mind after reading Mark Swed’s enlightening analysis (“Driven to Express Himself,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The publisher of Schoenberg's groundbreaking works says efforts are underway to digitize the compositions. By Marc Schneider Industry News Editor The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the building ...

It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. It would be equally hard to come up ...

Reading Allen Shawn’s Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey reminded me of an anecdote Oscar Levant gave about Schoenberg in his Memoirs of an Amnesiac: Once he was humming an unhummable theme with unnegotiable ...

What happens in the mind of a genius? Mozart’s mind was puerile; if his extraordinary sophistication with music extended to other aspects of his psyche, he didn’t show it. Van Gogh was subject to ...