... Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- ... C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. His next notable writings were in song form, being greatly influenced by the works of Schubert in the ability to weave melody, poem and a...

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... Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- ... C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. His next notable writings were in song form, being greatly influenced by the works of Schubert in the ability to weave melody, poem and a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. He is credited with the invention of serialism, or 12-tone music, method of composing with twelve notes related only to one another. It is a form of atonality, or lack of reference to a key or tonal center. In it, he broke ... to join the resistance. By the end of the war six million Jews had been systematically murdered. After the war Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at Nuremburg, and West Germany later adopted the Federal Compensation Law, under which billions of dollars were paid to those who survived Nazi ... comm...

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