Please login to rate this pageThe name ‘Arnold Schoenberg’ still evokes strong antipathy for some listeners. He was, after all, the man who took music into the realms of atonality and, worse still, then allegedly developed a system for composing by numbers. But Schoenberg's music began in a lush, romantic style and its evolution is the embodiment of Vienna in this period, itself changing the musical landscape of the 20th century.
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- Arnold Schoenberg Family
- Arnold Schoenberg Part 1
- Arnold Schoenberg Part 2
- Arnold Schoenberg Part 3
- Esa Pekka Salonen
- Gustav Mahler
- Interaction in the Arts
- Old and New Vienna
- Popular Culture
- Preview of City of Dreams
- Schoenberg Chamber Music
- Sigmund Freud
- Social Changes in Vienna
- Technology in Vienna
- Viennese Art Part 1
- Viennese Art Part 2
- Viennese Art Part 3
Esa-Pekka Salonen on Vienna
Esa-Pekka Salonen discusses City of Dreams.
