"At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
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. ...
Other Schoenberg memorabilia was also destroyed, including photographs, letters and posters. ... "
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