Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus tells the story of a composer based mainly on Arnold Schoenberg, whom resentment drives to make a pact with the Devil.

托玛斯曼在他的小说《浮士德博士》里以勋伯格为原型塑造了一个出于愤恨与魔鬼作交易的作曲家。

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When you listen to atonal music, for example Schoenberg, you are stuck in your seat for a quarter of an hour that feels like many hours in a dentist's chair.

听无调性音乐时(比如勋伯格)，在座位上坐一刻钟简直有如在牙医的诊断椅上坐了几小时。

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Kandinsky attended a performance of Schoenberg's music in 1911, and afterward wrote to Schoenberg.

1911年，康定斯基参加了勋伯格的一场音乐会，之后，他写信给勋伯格说。

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Schoenberg said Gershwin was a man who lived in music and expressed everything through music, because music was his native language.

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Adam Schoenberg is a young composer adding to this rich variety.

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Schoenberg, a former investment banker who now teaches behavioral economics at Columbia Business School.

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For Schoenberg, Brahms was a forerunner of modernism, whose commitment to structure provided a way forward from the dead-end to which Wagner's unfettered chromaticism was bound to lead.

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Like his version of Schoenberg, it gives an outside perspective on a cultural fetish and those who fetishize it.

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