Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
by Eric Salzman
Period: Early 20th
Century
Born: Monday, February 9, 1885 in Vienna, Austria
Died: Tuesday, December 24, 1935 in Vienna,
Austria
Nation of Origin: Austria
Major Works:
Violin Concerto (1935)
Chamber Concerto
Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1926)
Opera:
Lulu (1935) - some ideas taken from the Lyric Suite
Wozzeck (1921)
Other Information:
He was a student of Schoenberg and used the twelve-tone technique
of composition. The Violin Concerto (1935) and other works
use twelve-tone technique with tonal elements. Of Schoenberg's two
major pupils, Berg is the romantic and Webern is the
classicist.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900,
Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
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