Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer and music theorist. A modernist of the 20th century, he was most renowned for his atonal musical style and his new methods of composition, namely serialism and the twelve-tone technique. He was a central figure of the Second Viennese School of music, a school characterised by their expressionist, atonal music. There he mentored other figures such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Schoenberg had an immeasurable influence on 20th-century classical music.