This music was heard throughout the world, while the music of Schoenberg and Webern appealed to few listeners.
Toscanini, meanwhile, ignored the music of both Schoenberg and Berlin along with most other modernist or popular composers.
My personal experience with "understanding" has been the music of Schoenberg.
Mr. Henahan seems to equate serialism, atonality and the music of Schoenberg; these things are not synonymous.
The Second, steeped in the music of Schoenberg, Mr. Kirchner's influential teacher, came in 1958.
Maybe the shock comes from something that some people once considered mere noise, like the music of Wagner or Schoenberg.
This is called twelve-tone row, but it is tonally based (the music is in traditional keys, unlike the music of Schoenberg).
At the time of its composition, 1921-22, Bartok was immersed in the music of Schoenberg.
Her technique may have been influenced by the music of Schoenberg, although they met only briefly during her studies in Germany.
Should any of this dampen our enthusiasm for the music of Stravinsky or Schoenberg or Webern?