“I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning."”

— Arnold Schoenberg

"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 210
1920s

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