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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential teachers of music composition of the 20th century. He also was known for his creation of new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row.
Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential teachers of the 20th century. Among his most significant pupils were the composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern.1
Both Berg and Webern studied privately with Schoenberg, and together they explored new dimensions of musical expression that helped establish the revolutionary concept of atonality.2