I will still give credence to Arnold Schoenberg as being a great composer even though I dislike his music intensely. (Was it Nazi code?)

You might like to rethink that, Stringsinger:

"After the National Socialists came to power, in 1933, Schoenberg was summarily dismissed from his post at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he had been teaching since 1926. He was denounced as a Jew and a leading exponent of "degenerate" art. A fervent Zionist, he drafted a bold "Four-Point Program for Jewry," propounding that "a united Jewish party must be created…. Ways must be prepared to obtain a place to erect an independent Jewish state." In 1934 he emigrated to the United States and settled eventually in Los Angeles, where he taught for a year at the University of Southern California and from 1936 at U.C.L.A. He became an American citizen in 1941."

from The Milken Archive of Jewish-American Music