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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given his last name and the fact that he’s a Los Angeles-based classical-music composer, Adam Schoenberg has been asked a certain question more times than he cares to remember: Is he related to the ...

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 ...

“We admit to an occasional musical ray of light,” said the Wiener Zeitung. “But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going ...

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 ...

When an eminent scholar retires, their department will often hold some kind of event—a conference, a panel discussion, so on—to celebrate their contribution to the field. And Severine Neff, the Eugene ...