Berg spoke to the heart

He refused to let modernism's head rule its heart

FOR much of the past century, music lovers heard the phrase "second Viennese School" with sinking hearts. It signified a radical style of composition which aimed at redressing the swooning cliches of late romanticism, first with atonality, then with the rigorous new language of the 12-tone system, founded not on traditional harmony but abstract arrangements of pitches. Spearheaded by a formidable composer, teacher and polemicist, Arnold Schoenberg, it inspired controversy and ...

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