Ninety years after composer Arnold Schoenberg fled the Nazis and moved to Los Angeles, the publishing company established by his heirs was destroyed in the Palisades fire.

An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing company his heirs founded burned down. By Javier C. Hernández An estimated ...

(Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times) Arnold Schoenberg was already a towering intellectual and cultural figure when he landed in Los Angeles in 1934. Born in Vienna in 1874, the composer also was a ...

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht The one mild respite amid the devastation is that no original scores were lost in the blaze. Most of these are held by a museum in Vienna, Schoenberg’s birthplace.

Arnold Schoenberg was born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1874. He went on to find huge success as a composer in Berlin before fleeing to the US in 1933 to avoid persecution from the Nazis.

1917 The original scores are safe and remain at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, having been transferred from the University of Southern California almost 30 years ago. Belmont’s losses ...

The publisher of Schoenberg's groundbreaking works says efforts are underway to digitize the compositions. By Marc Schneider Industry News Editor The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the building ...

Unlike Vienna's other royal residences, Hofburg is like a city within a city. Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the ...

Music runs like a thread through Schoenberg's life. He attended open-air concerts in the Vienna Prater throughout his youth and started learning the violin at the age of nine. By 1899, just 16 ...

Belmont provided the orchestra with scores for its performance of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder last year. Born in Vienna in 1874, Schoenberg rose up in the European music scene during the early 20th ...