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I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Arnold Schoenberg

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Arnold Schoenberg
Age: 76 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 13
Died: 1951
Died: July 13
Classical Composer
Composer
Conductor
Music Theorist
Musicologist
Painter
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Arnold Schönberg
A. Schenberg
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
Arnold Schonberg
Arnolʹd Shenberg
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Arnold Franz Walter Schönberg
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