One of Glen Tetley’s earliest works, Pierrot Lunaire, danced to music by Arnold Schoenberg, brought him immediate recognition. An attempt at fusing classical and contemporary dance forms, he...
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). Austrian-born American composer, musician and musical theorist
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer and musical theorist famous for developing the revolutionary Twelve-Tone Method of composing as set out in his books Theory of Harmony and Fundamentals of Musical Composition. He was largely self-taught, and was noticed by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, the latter taking him on as a student. Schoenberg’s music has been used in many ballets, including George Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Kenneth MacMillan’s My Brother, My Sisters and Different Drummer, and, perhaps most famous of all, Antony Tudor’s Pillar of Fire.
Grace Note » 1930s: Art and Literature in Britain in the 1930s
Artists in Britain in the early and mid 20th Century were influenced by contemporary developments in Europe. However, they also looked back to a quintessentially native? Romanticism. There is no...