Artist
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg appears once in our Modernism list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Modernism
- Year
- 1912
- Highest placing
- No. 2 in Modernism
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Pierrot lunaire
1912
Ranked No. 2 in Modernism
Twenty-one poems delivered in Sprechstimme — neither spoken nor sung — over five players. Unsettling in a way that has not worn off in a century of trying.