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His "Nebelsteinmusik," a violin concerto played deftly by Kurt Nikkanen, balances Serial techniques with unabashed lyricism.
Using serial techniques invented by Schoenberg and refined by Webern, they tried to invent a new music that spoke in Mother Nature's own language.
Less easily classifiable is Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No 1, which finds him moving from the serial techniques he embraced in the 1960s towards the romanticism of his later compositions.
A more significant influence from Schoenberg can be seen in Stravinsky's late conversion to serial techniques, of which "Three Songs From William Shakespeare," composed in 1953, was a harbinger.
It wasn't so long ago that composers described as eclectic might be expected to weave their works with threads of Romanticism and Classicism, Serial techniques and stretches of Minimalist texture, and perhaps occasional strands of jazz or pop.
In this landmark exploration of rigorous serial techniques, composed over several years beginning in 1956, the pianos go at each other nonstop, exchanging volatile volleys of notes with a ferocity that seems almost free-form.
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As for Webern, Skempton felt a strong connection with serial technique when he first discovered it.
The Copland composition was an exercise in serial technique such as is nowadays becoming pretty academic.
His serial technique was eclectic, mixed with borrowings from jazz and a genuinely vocal lyricism.
Leonard Bernstein started off the evening with an unscheduled "compostion" written in twelve-tone serial technique by a computer named Pegasus, property of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Webern -- always a close observer of his teacher Schoenberg, though, as an essentially lyrical composer, thoroughly independent -- took up Schoenberg's new serial technique in 1924 and never looked back.
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