This composer's first successful piece was a string sextet based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, while one of his last pieces ends with a recitation of the Sh'ma and honors Holocaust survivors.
This composer was encouraged by Carl Engel to compose his Theme and Variations for Band, which he later transposed for orchestra. This composer's first successful piece was a string sextet based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, while one of his last pieces ends with a recitation of the Sh'ma and honors Holocaust survivors. In addition to Transfigured Night and A Survivor from Warsaw, this composer wrote three groups of seven poems based on Albert Giraud's "Pierrot lunaire". This Austrian immigrant to America considered his works to be pan-tonal, and he is now considered the inventor of the twelve- tone technique. Name this leader of the Second Viennese School.
This composer was encouraged by Carl Engel to compose his Theme and Variations for Band, which he later transposed for orchestra.
Arnold Schoenberg