| 1 | He was praised to the skies by Puccini and Schoenberg. | |
| 2 | An enormous literature exists on the relationship between abstract painting and atonal music, and the extensive Kandinsky-Schoenberg correspondence can be found on the Internet. | |
| 3 | Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus tells the story of a composer based mainly on Arnold Schoenberg, whom resentment drives to make a pact with the Devil. | |
| 4 | The Yonhap news agency says South Korean National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon made the prediction of another North Korean attack during a parliamentary committee meeting Wednesday. | |
| 5 | 演奏家们出于义务,一直不断地排演勋伯格的作品,但从来都放在音乐会中间,永远不会作为压轴曲目——那种不和谐的声音只会把听众赶出场外。 Out of a sense of obligation, musicians perform Schoenberg from time to time, but always in the middle and never at the end of a program, for audiences flee the cacophony. |