The Expressionist Painter
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): 2/5. The Expressionist Painter: Donald Macleod looks at Schoenberg's marital crisis, which he transformed into music and paintings.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
2/5. The Expressionist Painter
Donald Macleod explores the effect on Schoenberg of his wife's affair, a personal crisis which he transformed into music as well as paintings, forming an important friendship with the artist Kandinsky.
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