It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. It would be equally hard to come up ...

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is taking on Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, a performance so massive it's billed as a once-in-a-generation event.

At the turn of the 20th century, when the three-century period of tonal music was winding down, composers often wrote huge works requiring exceptionally large numbers of performers. Wagner's operas ...

"Dieses Werk ist der Schlüssel zu meiner ganzen Entwicklung", soll Arnold Schönberg nach Vollendung seiner Gurre-Lieder gesagt haben. Elf lange Jahre hat der Komponist an diesem monumentalen Werk ...

Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Moser, Philip Langridge, Thomas Quasthoff; Ernst Senff Chorus, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Chorus and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir ...

Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" Friday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. (Carlin Stiehsl/Los Angeles Times) It would be hard to come up with a more ...