In 1933 Arnold Schoenberg left his native Austria, never to return.
Ever a fish out of water, this diminutive giant among 20th-century composers spent the last 18 years of his life in the film capital of the world. With the help of Schoenberg's pupils, his children and those who knew him socially, Jeremy Siepmann searches for the man behind the legend and discovers a figure compounded of paradox. (R)