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Alban Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School whose operas "Wozzeck" and "Lulu" successfully blended atonality with dramatic expression.
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer who revolutionized modern music by pioneering atonal composition and the twelve-tone technique.
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and a core member of the Second Viennese School, known for his concise, highly structured twelve-tone compositions.
Luigi Dallapiccola's 1949 Italian opera brilliantly utilizes twelve-tone serialism to depict a prisoner's desperate quest for freedom.
Italian composer (1904–1975), a pioneer of twelve-tone technique in Italy, best known for the opera Il prigioniero (1949).
Frank Martin (1890–1974) was a Swiss composer who synthesized twelve-tone technique with tonal harmony, producing operas, oratorios, and concertos.
Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) was an Austrian-American composer best known for his jazz-influenced opera Jonny spielt auf (1926), a major Weimar-era success.
