Schoenberg’s private teaching produced Webern, Berg, and Eisler through free tuition.

Evidence

Since too few people who were talented in composition came to the courses which he gave in Vienna from 1904 onwards, Schoenberg gave up this form of public teaching and took really talented pupils for private tuition instead. Among these were Anton Webern and Alban Berg. Berg was self-taught, and Schoenberg gave him tuition free of charge to begin with, until his family’s financial position had improved. From 1919 to 1923 he also gave free tuition to the most gifted of his second generation of pupils, Hanns Eisler, another impoverished autodidact. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 295

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy fact: the entire Second Viennese School lineage came out of Schoenberg tutoring poor autodidacts for free.
• XREF: connects to: Schoenberg was largely self-taught and reached music mostly outside formal institutions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 292; Schoenberg founded clubs and taught privately to escape profit-driven concert agencies — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 93