Arnold Schoenberg

Composer

1874-09-13 – 1951-07-13

Austrian-born composer, music theorist, and teacher who helped shape modern classical music through atonality and the twelve-tone technique. He taught in Europe and the United States and influenced generations of 20th-century composers. His output includes orchestral works, chamber music, and major theoretical writings.

Quotes by Arnold Schoenberg

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
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