| A disciple of fellow Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern adopted and extended Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system. This chromatic, atonal technique avoided the traditional reliance on key and harmony, relying instead on an ordered, almost mathematical sequence of tones. Webern’s compositions, scored for small instrumental ensembles, were meticulously crafted and often brief. Webern’s music in turn influenced later avant-garde composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. |
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