Webern, Webern, Webern..... egads gentlemen. Every major
artistic, serious composer in the 20th century is absolutely indebted to him.In particular Stravinsky when he finally found out about serial music. If you wanted to remove yourself from romantic/classical musical forms, you just looked at a Webern score. Schoenberg may have started serial music (subset of atonal music, Ives' music would be another form), but it was Webern who took it to its logical conclusion. Serious art music of the 20th century was Webern's century. The only serious contender would have to be Bartok but he was unique and his style was not copied to any great extent, but his string quartets are still one of the finest sets of chamber music produced in the the 20th C.
artistic, serious composer in the 20th century is absolutely indebted to him.In particular Stravinsky when he finally found out about serial music. If you wanted to remove yourself from romantic/classical musical forms, you just looked at a Webern score. Schoenberg may have started serial music (subset of atonal music, Ives' music would be another form), but it was Webern who took it to its logical conclusion. Serious art music of the 20th century was Webern's century. The only serious contender would have to be Bartok but he was unique and his style was not copied to any great extent, but his string quartets are still one of the finest sets of chamber music produced in the the 20th C.