Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

male, deceased (1951)
comment on devient solitaire, atonalité et sérialisme, école de vienne, Berlin 1901-1903, mahler, première symphonie de chambre 1906…atonality
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg - Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism i...
Anton Webern

Anton Webern

male, deceased (1945)
death by firearm in Austria, Conductor, Twelve-tone technique, Classical composer, Austrian, Modernist composer
Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 - September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese...
Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

male, deceased (1883)
German, der ring des nibelungen, Opera composer, opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, tristan und isolde…atonality
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his...
Second Viennese School

Second Viennese School

male
composer, Transylvanian, Vienna, Austria, Alexander Zemlinsky, post-romanticism, Norbert von Hannenheim…atonality
The Second Viennese School is the term generally used in English-speaking countries to denote the group of composers that comprised Arnold...
Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek

male, deceased (1991)
naturalized citizen of the United States, composer, Expressionism, czech, Austrian, Classical composer…atonality
Ernst Krenek was an Austrian-born composer of Czech ancestry; throughout his life he insisted that his name be written "Krenek" rather than...
Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze

male, 83 years old
musician, Das Floss der Medusa, marino, German opera composer, Classical composer, communist…atonality
Hans Werner Henze (born July 1 1926) is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953...
Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman

male, deceased (2006)
Avant-garde jazz musician, musette, From Fort Worth, Texas, saxophone, musician, Jazz saxophonist…atonality
Dewey Redman (born Walter Redman in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, May 17, 1931; d. Brooklyn, New York, September 2, 2006) was an American free...
Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento

male, 82 years old
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, tonality, George Peabody Medal winner, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner…atonality
Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. Among his most prominent pieces are the...
Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock

male, 76 years old
Touch Food, Ulrich Krieger, ProTools, Guitar Too, for Four, Kaspar T. Toeplitz, Four Full Flutes…atonality
Phill Niblock (born 2 October 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) is a minimalist composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental...
Shulamit Ran

Shulamit Ran

female, 60 years old
Jewish, mannes college of music, Classical musician, American, atonality, violin concerto
Shulamit Ran (born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship...