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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer (1874-1951)
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
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Robert Gerhard
Robert Gerhard
Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher
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Erwin Schulhoff
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
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Ignaz Brüll
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian composer and pianist
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
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Lars-Erik Larsson
Lars-Erik Larsson
Swedish composer and conductor
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott
Welsh composer
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth
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Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr
English composer
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Stefan Anton Reck
Stefan Anton Reck
German conductor
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Dinu Lipatti
Dinu Lipatti
Pianist, Composer
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Helga Pilarczyk
Helga Pilarczyk
German operatic soprano
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Austrian composer
Member of, past and present
second Viennese School

second Viennese School

Alban Berg around 1930 (by Max Fenichel)

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (/ˈɑːlbɑːn ˈbɛərɡ/; German: [ˈbɛɐ̯k]; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure".

Berg was born and lived in Vienna. He began to compose only at the age of fifteen. He studied counterpoint, music theory and harmony with Arnold Schoenberg between 1904 and 1911, and adopted his principles of developing variation and the twelve-tone technique. Berg's major works include the operas Wozzeck (1924) and Lulu (1935, finished posthumously), the chamber pieces Lyric Suite and Chamber Concerto, as well as a Violin Concerto. He also composed a number of songs (lieder). He is said to have brought more "human values" to the twelve-tone system, his works seen as more "emotional" than Schoenberg's. His music had a surface glamour that won him admirers when Schoenberg himself had few.

Berg died from sepsis in 1935.