Biography
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Born
2 February 1892
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Born In
Budapest, Hungary
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Died
12 July 1977 (aged 85)
Fritz Heinrich Klein (2 February 1892 in Budapest – 12 July 1977 in Linz) was an Austrian composer. He was a student of Alban Berg and the inventor of the all-interval row.
Klein's twelve-tone theories appear to originate independently of Schoenberg's as with Josef Matthias Hauer's, and these claims as well as frequent stylistic changes helped to exclude him from the Second Viennese School, though Klein's theories where highly influential on Alban Berg. Klein considered his piece, Die Maschine: Eine extonale Selbstsatire, Op. 1 (1921) the first in which a twelve-tone row appears along with its retrograde, inversion, and transposed forms.
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