Wallingford Riegger
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Wallingford Constantine Riegger was an American modernist composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral and modern dance music. He was born in Albany, Georgia, but spent most of his career in Ne
Riegger in New York City, c. 1930s
Wallingford Riegger in Berlin, c. 1908
Twelve-tone technique
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The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of th
Wallingford Riegger
…composers such as Charles Ives and Henry Cowell. Riegger is noted for being one of the first American composers to use a form of serialism and the twelve-tone technique. Riegger was born in 1885 to Constantine Riegger and Ida Riegger (née Wallingford). After his father's lumber mill burned down in 1888, his family moved…
Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the twelve-tone technique