A Conversation with Nuria Schoenberg-Nono
from Part I - Schoenberg in Place
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2025
This chapter is an interview with Schoenberg’s daughter, Nuria Schoenberg-Nono. In the interview, Mrs Schoenberg-Nono recalls a domesticated Schoenberg: playing games and making school lunches for his children, doting on his wife Gertrud, and strolling through the wilds of a then-undeveloped west Los Angeles. She recounts Schoenberg constantly musing about teaching and the best way to reach even the most obtuse students, and how the generosity of the Schoenberg family was sometimes taken advantage of by acquaintances who liked to stop by on the way back from the beach for impromptu parties. In all, Nuria Schoenberg-Nono paints a portrait of Schoenberg is very different from his reputation as a ‘severe’ modernist; rather, in her memories, Schoenberg appears as a warm and kindly father and husband – and as sometimes delightfully quirky as well.
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