Arnold Schoenberg - Fleeing Nazi Germany
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8. Arnold Schoenberg - Fleeing Nazi Germany
Not unlike Soviet composers under Stalin's rule, when the Nazi Party came to power Arnold Schoenberg's music suddenly became the enemy of the state. It was challenging and angular or, as the Nazis saw it, degenerate due to Schoenberg's belonging to the Jewish faith. He fled Germany for the USA in 1934.
