Arnold Schoenberg in WWII

Arnold Schoenberg

An Austrian-born composer, music theorist, and educator. One of the figures who fundamentally revolutionized 20th-century music, he expanded the framework of tonal music and, passing through atonality, systematized the twelve-tone technique. He mentored Alban Berg and Anton Webern, becoming the central figure of the so-called "Second Viennese School". Of Jewish heritage, he formally returned to Judaism in 1933 after fleeing the Nazi regime, traveling through France to settle in the United States, where he spent the latter half of his life composing and teaching.

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Year	Arnold Schoenberg
1874	Birth of Arnold Schoenberg (Period: September 13, 1874, Location: Vienna (currently the Republic of Austria, City of Vienna))
1890	Beginning of activities as a musician (Age: 15 years old, Period: 1890s, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1899	Composition of "Verklärte Nacht" (Transfigured Night, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1899, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1901	Marriage to Mathilde Zemlinsky (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1901, Location: Pressburg (modern Bratislava, Slovakia) and Vienna) Relocation to Berlin and "Gurre-Lieder" (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1901–1903, Location: Berlin, Germany) Marriage (Arnold Schoenberg, Mathilde Zemlinsky, Age: 27 years old, Period: October 7, 1901 (church wedding on October 18), Location: Civil marriage in Pressburg (modern Bratislava, Slovakia), church wedding in Vienna)
1904	Composition education in Vienna (Age: 29 years old, Period: c. 1904–, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1908	Transition to atonal music (Age: 33 years old, Period: c. 1908, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1912	Composition of "Pierrot Lunaire" (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1912, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1914	World War I (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1915	Military service and suspension of creative activities due to World War I (Age: 40 years old, Period: c. 1915–1917, Location: Austria-Hungary) Military service during World War I (Age: 40 years old, Period: c. 1915–1917, Location: Austria-Hungary)
1918	Establishment of the Society for Private Musical Performances (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1918, Location: Vienna, Austria)
1921	Antisemitic exclusion in Mattsee (Age: 46 years old, Period: Summer 1921, Location: Mattsee, Austria) Establishment of twelve-tone technique (Age: 46 years old, Period: c. 1921–1923, Location: Mödling, Austria)
1923	Death of Mathilde Schönberg (Age: 49 years old, Period: October 18, 1923, Location: Mödling, Austria)
1924	Remarriage to Gertrud Kolisch (Age: 49 years old, Period: August 28, 1924, Location: Vienna, Austria) Marriage (Arnold Schoenberg, Gertrud Kolisch, Age: 49 years old, Period: August 28, 1924, Location: Vienna, Austria)
1925	Appointment as professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1925–1933, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1933	Return to Judaism (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Paris, France) Exile from Germany and persecution by the Nazi regime (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Berlin, Germany, Paris, France) Exile to America (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933–1934, Location: From Paris, France to Boston, New York, Los Angeles, United States) Exile from Germany (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933, Location: From Berlin to Paris, France) Emigration to America (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933–1934, Location: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, United States)
1936	Teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1936–1944, Location: Los Angeles, United States)
1939	World War II (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
1942	Composition of "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1942, Location: Los Angeles, United States)
1951	Death of Arnold Schoenberg (Age: 76 years old, Period: July 13, 1951)

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