Why did Arnold Schoenberg leave Germany in 1933?

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Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room. — Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential teachers of music composition of the 20th century. He also was known for his creation of new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row.

Arnold Schoenberg left Germany in 1933 due to the rise of National Socialism. The Nazi regime initiated a campaign to remove Jewish influence from all areas of German cultural life, which resulted in Schoenberg being dismissed from his position at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.1

Following his dismissal, Schoenberg immigrated to the United States by way of Paris. During this transition, he formally returned to the Jewish faith, a religion he had previously abandoned in his youth.1