Arnold Schoenberg was the founder of the second Viennese school of musical composition (the first Viennese school is that of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Mozart). Schoenberg was one of the most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. He is credited with the invention of serialism, or 12-tone music, method of composing with ... the Fall Music Festival in Bad Urach, Germany, Schoenberg's The Survivor from Warsaw opened the concert and was followed without an intermission, and practically without a pause, by Johannes Brahms's "German Requiem." What might seem a brutal and artific...

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