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Austrian-American composer (1874–1951)

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Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg in Los Angeles, c. 1948
Born	(1874-09-13)13 September 1874 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	13 July 1951(1951-07-13) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupations	Composer music theorist teacher
Known for	Second Viennese School
Works	List of compositions

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg^[a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

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