Arnold Schoenberg, regards: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 28 septembre-3 décembre 1995

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Environ 70 autoportraits, portraits, "visions" et décors-paysages, réalisés pour la plupart entre 1909 et 1911, permettent de découvrir l'oeuvre picturale de l'un des compositeurs de l'avant-garde du XXe siècle

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Contents

Section 1
13
Section 2
38
Section 3
40

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About the author (1995)

An American of Austrian birth, Arnold Schoenberg composed initially in a highly developed romantic style but eventually turned to painting and expressionism. At first he was influenced by Richard Wagner and tried to write in a Wagnerian style. He attracted the attention of Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, with whom he created a new compositional method based on using all 12 half-steps in each octave as an organizing principle, the so-called 12-tone technique. His importance to the development of twentieth-century music is incredible, but the music he composed using this new method is not easily accessible to most concertgoers.

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