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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 01:03, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
... that Arnold Schoenberg composed a film score to no film? Source: Arnold Schoenberg to Otto Klemperer: "I find your suggestion about the abstract film, after thinking it over and over, very tempting indeed, since it solves the problem of this '[film] music to no film'." (Arnold Schoenberg and the Cinematic Art by Sabine Feisst, p. 98)
ALT1: ... that the US premiere of the Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene by Arnold Schoenberg was intentionally ignored by the Los Angeles Times and resulted in the firing of its conductor? Source: "The last important premiere of one of Schoenberg's orchestral works in America before his arrival there was of Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene [...] in Los Angeles in July 1933. [...] For the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl audience, it was their first encounter with twelve-tone music [...] and [Nicolas] Slonimsky met with harsh resistance. [...] [H]e was fired after the Schoenberg performance. The Los Angeles Times abstained from reviewing the concert [...] (Schoenberg's New World: The American Years by Sabine Feisst, p. 26)