Second Viennese School

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The Second Viennese School was an early 20th-century group of Austrian and German composers centered around Arnold Schoenberg, known for pioneering atonal and twelve-tone music.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of composers
musical movement
associatedWith Viennese modernism
linked to: Austrian modernism

expressionism in music
centralFigure Arnold Schoenberg
characteristic chamber-music-like orchestration
concentration on motivic development
economy of musical material
emancipation of dissonance
use of atonality
use of twelve-tone technique
country Austria
Germany
distinguishedFrom First Viennese School
field classical music
music composition
genre atonal music
serialism
twelve-tone music
hasPart Berg
Schoenberg circle
Webern
linked to: Anton Webern
inception early 20th century
influenced 20th-century classical music
avant-garde music
post-war serialism
influencedBy Gustav Mahler
Late Romanticism
Richard Wagner
languageOfMembers German
location Vienna
movement modernism in music
notableMember Alban Berg
Anton Webern
Arnold Schoenberg
Egon Wellesz
Ernst Krenek
Hanns Eisler
Karl Rankl
Rudolf Kolisch
notableWorkByMembers Five Pieces for Orchestra
Lulu
Pierrot Lunaire
Symphony Op. 21
linked to: Symphony, Op. 21

Wozzeck
linked to: Woyzeck
precededBy First Viennese School
region Central Europe
teachingCenter Arnold Schoenberg
timePeriod early 1900s
interwar period

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Arnold Schoenberg movement Second Viennese School
Arnold Schoenberg founded Second Viennese School
Alma Mahler movement Viennese modernism
linked to: Second Viennese School
Maurizio Pollini movement Second Viennese School (as interpreter)
linked to: Second Viennese School
Pierrot Lunaire relatedMovement Second Viennese School
First Viennese School followedBy Second Viennese School
Le Visage nuptial influencedBy Second Viennese School
Éclat influencedBy Second Viennese School
Anton Webern movement Second Viennese School
Alban Berg memberOf Second Viennese School
English pastoral school contrastedWith Second Viennese School
Artur Schnabel movement Second Viennese School circle
linked to: Second Viennese School
Second Viennese School hasPart Schoenberg circle
linked to: Second Viennese School
String Quartet No. 2 associatedComposerMovement Second Viennese School
Moses und Aron musicalStyle Second Viennese School
emancipation of the dissonance associatedWith Second Viennese School
Gertrud Kolisch connectedTo Second Viennese School
Manon Gropius associatedWith Second Viennese School