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Also Known As twelve-tone music • 12-tone technique • note-row • 12-tone method • tone-row

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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
John Cage
John Cage
American composer
Milton Babbitt.
Milton Babbitt
American composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Sessions
Roger Sessions
American composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
Ernst Krenek
American composer
Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer
Luigi Dallapiccola
Italian composer
Hugo Weisgall
American composer and educator
Goffredo Petrassi
Italian musician
Wallingford Riegger
American composer
Wolfgang Fortner
German composer
Frank Martin
Swiss composer

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