Arnold Schoenberg: Composer's vast archive destroyed in LA fires

About 100,000 scores by the Austrian-American composer have been lost in the Pacific Palisade fires.

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The sheet music was kept at his family's music production company - which burnt down in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood last week.

While no original manuscripts were lost, the music owned by Belmont Music Publishing had been the main collection of scores rented out to orchestras and musicians.

The director of the American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, said these had been an "indispensable resource" for performing musicians.

Schoenberg's son, Larry, 83, said the sheet music had been kept in a building behind his house. Both buildings were razed in the fires last week.

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