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Second Viennese School

Name given to a group of composers (namely Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern), working in Vienna during the first years of the 20th century, who developed atonality in its early stages and became the foremost proponents of Schoenberg's twelve-tone system.
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And consider all that decadent fin-de-siècle Viennese culture: Robert Musil's neurotic novel A Man Without Qualities, Otto Weininger's misogynistic, antisemitic and self-hating Sex and Character, the atonalism of the second Vienna school, all those morbid Schiele canvases.
What lies beneath by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
of the time-honored Germano-centered view of musical history as a continuum of greatness from (at least) Bach to the Second Vienna School, and its partial replacement by French, Italian, and Russian examples.
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