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 Austrian modernism
surface form: Viennese 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
Second Viennese School self-linksurface differs
surface form: Schoenberg circle

Anton Webern
surface form: Webern
inception early 20th century
influenced 20th-century classical music
avant-garde music
post-war serialism
influencedBy Gustav Mahler
Romantic period in music
surface form: 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, Op. 10
surface form: Five Pieces for Orchestra

Lulu
Pierrot Lunaire
Symphony, Op. 21
surface form: Symphony Op. 21

Woyzeck
surface form: Wozzeck
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 Second Viennese School
this entity surface form: Viennese modernism
Maurizio Pollini movement Second Viennese School
this entity surface form: Second Viennese School (as interpreter)
"Pierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg relatedMovement Second Viennese School
subject surface form: Pierrot Lunaire
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
this entity surface form: Second Viennese School circle
Second Viennese School hasPart Second Viennese School self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Schoenberg circle
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