Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, teacher, and writer who propounded the emancipation of the dissonance. He was active in Vienna and Berlin, and taught at the Prussian Academy of Arts (1925–1933). Facing Nazi Germany's civil-service restrictions, he resigned and defiantly affirmed his Judaism. Then he immigrated to the United States, teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944), where facilities bear his name.