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Alban Berg
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The Austrian composer Alban Berg was a pupil of Arnold Schönberg. With Anton Webern, he was a leading figure in the so-called Second Viennese School which ushered in the use of atonality, music without tonality or key-centre, and the twelve-note system or serialism, music based on a series of the 12 semitones or half-steps of the modern scale, and profoundly influenced the music of the 20th century. 
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Berg wrote two important operas, Wozzeck, a study of insanity, based on the play by Buechner, and the unfinished Lulu, based on Wedekind. Berg's Violin Concerto and Chamber Concerto are an important part of 20th century repertoire. His Lyric Suite for string quartet was later orchestrated in part, while the delicately orchestrated Three Pieces of 1914-1915 form an occasional part of modern concert repertoire.
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