serialist

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His wife, Gertraud Cerha, a musician herself, whom he married in 1951, was the keyboard soloist in the 1960 premiere of a serialist piece for harpsichord and ensemble, “Relazioni fragili.”

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

After the Second World War, prodigiously complex systems of organizing music spread to all corners of the globe: twelve-tone composition, its serialist variants, chance operations, and so on.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Though known as an uncompromising serialist, Babbitt in his youth was immersed in musical theater and even his most complex, thorny scores cook with spiky American rhythms.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2015

Yet, even while he was studying with Boulez and embracing the European serialist movement, he was already beginning to flourish as a film composer.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2012

‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall