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Second Viennese School

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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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Brahms and Liszt, inevitably, were both prominent, though Gypsy music also reached the Second Viennese School via the concert's closing item, Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms's First Piano Quartet, written "alla Zingarese" (in the Gypsies' style), as Brahms put it.
Czech isolation from western culture meant that be had no contact with the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen or Pierre Boulez, but he soon arrived at a more freely conceived form of twelve-tone composition through his individual reaction to the music of the leaders of the Second Viennese School, above all Alban Berg.
Here we have the two sides of Wellesz, No 3 being post Mahler, and No 5 after he adopted the Second Viennese School.
 
 
 
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