Part one of term paper
was born September 13, 1874 in Austria: died on Los Angeles July 13, 1951. Arnold was an American citizen as of 1941. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started to compose. Berlin was very important for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular ...

Part two of term paper
... organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern music. The goal was to create ideal preconditions for the performance of contemporary works. After Hitler's take-over in 1933, Schönberg was dismissed from the Berlin academy. He emigrated with his wife and his daughter at first to Paris, where he was converted to Jewish faith (Marc Chagall was his witness), t ...