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Arnold Schoenberg music scores destroyedpublished at 14:00 Greenwich Mean Time
Paul Glynn
Culture reporter
Schoenberg was born in Vienna but moved to the US to flee from the Nazis, eventually settling in LA, where he lived until his death in 1951
Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg’s music catalogue has been destroyed by the LA wildfires.
Around 100,000 scores belonging to his family’s publishing company were destroyed when a 2,000-sq-ft building in Pacific Palisades burned down, the New York Times reported, external on Sunday.
“It’s brutal,” said Larry Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer’s son, who rented and sold the manuscripts through Belmont Music Publishers. “We lost everything.”
No original scores were destroyed – but the loss could pose issues for musicians hoping to play his father’s music.
Leon Botstein, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, said losing Belmont, which made Schoenberg’s music publicly available, was a “catastrophe”.
Belmont said it hopes to make new digital copies of original scores kept at the Schoenberg Center in Vienna.
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