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
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
