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In the first
decades of the twentieth century Vienna was one of
the most important centers of European music. With
its long-standing tradition as a magnet that drew
the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, Vienna was a hub
of Classical music. But beginning in the 19th
century with the invention of the waltz, Vienna was
also a locale in which popular music first began to
thrive. Vienna 1900 also gave birth to the radical
compositional form of twelve-tone music, developed
above all by Arnold Schönberg and his
principal pupil Alban Berg. Mathematical logic, not
emotional invocation, rules the musical structure
of the twelve-tone composition, with the musical
theme reduced to a mathematical permutation of the
twelve notes that compose the chromatic
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