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
He launched music-appreciation projects on television at a time when network executives considered Stravinsky’s serialist score “The Flood,” with choreography by Balanchine, suitable for a mass public.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
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
Lutoslawski, who rejected the postwar serialist aesthetic, was influenced by Polish composers like Chopin and Szymanowski, the Debussian tradition and John Cage’s chance procedures.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 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
