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Radio 3,07 Jan 2017,45 mins

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

Music Matters

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Tom Service talks to Schoenberg's daughter, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, and discusses the legacy of the whole Second Viennese School with Professor Julian Johnson, Gillian Moore - Director of Music, Southbank Centre - and composer Gabriel Prokofiev. Composer-conductors Reinbert de Leeuw and HK Gruber talk about the challenges and rewards of performing the orchestral works of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. Plus Tom McKinney is joined by curator Therese Muxeneder as he visits the Schönberg-Haus in Mödling, just outside Vienna, which is known as the "birthplace of twelve-tone music".

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