Facts about Arnold Shernberg

His real name is Franz Walter

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/schoenberg.html

He learned how to play the violin as a child and at 9 years old was already composing pieces for two violins.

http://musiced.about.com/od/20thcentury/p/schoenberg.htm

In the amateur orchestra Polyhymnia, Schoenberg met Alexander von Zemlinsky. They became close friends, and Zemlinsky began to give Schoenberg instruction in composition, the only formal teaching of this sort that he ever had. The String Quartet in D Major (1897, published 1966) is a good example of the immediate results. This was Schoenberg's first work to be played publicly in Vienna. As its Brahmsian style was quite accessible to the conservative taste of the audience, it was well received.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Arnold_Schoenberg.aspx

1882Birth of his brother Heinrich on 29 April.

http://www.schoenbergmusic.com/biography

Birth of son Georg on 22 June.

1906

http://www.schoenbergmusic.com/biography