Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the morning of Jan. 7, Larry Schoenberg was about to prepare the tax filings for Belmont Music Publishers, the august house ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time in American academia when, if you wanted to attain a bachelor’s degree in musical composition, you had to display a basic competence in the music of the Second Viennese School—of the ...

A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place. By Aatish Taseer and Andrew Moore An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than seventy years, Arnold Schoenberg’s student Egon Wellesz (1885-1974) occupied a position at the center of international musical life. Composer, scholar, critic, teacher, Wellesz was ...

I’m a high school music student. I sit, barely twitching, as a foreign-sounding, abrasive, downright unpleasant mash of sounds unfolds around me; they pelt me and the rest of the innocent audience for ...

I’d say that anyone who has listened to Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël has started down the classical Christmas rabbit hole. Now, let’s go a bit further down. A Symphony of Carols by Victor ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

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, ...