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Arnold Schoenberg was born September 13,1874 in Vienna. He used the spelling Schonberg until he moved to the United States in 1934. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started composing. He had no formal training until he was in his late teens, when Zemlinsky became his teacher and friend. Arnold later befriended and married Zemlinsky’s sister in 1910. This Austrian and later American composer fell into the expressionist movement in German poetry and art. He was known for being a leader of the Second Viennese School and also for extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled as degenerate art, along with jazz and swing. He developed the famous twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all 12 notes in the chromatic scale. He was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing......

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