Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg

~ JezzieG

Verklärte Nacht
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Arnold Schoenberg
Der Blaue Reiter
Born: 13 September 1874, Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian-American
Died: 13 July 1951, California, USA

Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951

Schoenberg was a composer, teacher, music theorist, painter, and writer. Consider one of the most influential composers of the 20th century he is associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art and a leader of the Second Viennese School. Target by the Nazi Party as a Jewish composer his work was labeled degenerate and was forbidden from being published, in 1933 he emigrated to the USA becoming a US citizen in 1941

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.