biography
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| lived:
| (1885–1935)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied under Schoenberg (1904–10), and after World War 1 taught privately in Vienna. With the last of his Four Songs (1909–10) he displays a free harmonic language tempered wih Romantic tonal elements which remained his characteristic style. He is best known for his opera Wozzeck (1925), his violin concerto, and the Lyric Suite for string quartet. His unfinished opera, Lulu, was posthumously produced. |
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