ARNOLD SCHOENBERG [ca. 1940] Photo

[Los Angeles?]: Np, [ca. 1940]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photo. Agency sticker on verso, just about fine.

Portrait of the Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer, Arnold Schoenberg. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in twentieth century classical music. A central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the “unity of musical space”. (Wikipedia)