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Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

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Alban Berg
Age: 50 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 9
Died: 1935
Died: December 24
Composer
Librettist
Musician
Pianist
Vienna
Austria
Alban Maria Johannes Berg
Understand
Music
Hard
Schoenberg

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