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A fact from Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... 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)