This composer employed sprechstimme in a melodrama about a "moondrunk" Commediadell'arte character, and developed a method of composing in which all the notes of the chromatic scalemust be used before any can be repeated.
A sextet by this composer was rejected for performance because it contained an inverted ninthchord. One of this composer's pieces features a single chord repeated with different instruments,illustrating his principle of "tone-color-melody"; that work, "Summer Morning by A Lake," is one ofhis Five Pieces for Orchestra. His first major work was a string sextet based on the poetry of (*)Richard Dehmel. This composer employed sprechstimme in a melodrama about a "moondrunk" Commediadell'arte character, and developed a method of composing in which all the notes of the chromatic scalemust be used before any can be repeated. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of TransfiguredNight and Pierrot Lunaire who pioneered atonality and twelve-tone music.
A sextet by this composer was rejected for performance because it contained an inverted ninthchord.
Arnold Schoenberg