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Schoenberg, a former investment banker who now teaches behavioral economics at Columbia Business School.
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For Schoenberg, Brahms was a forerunner of modernism, whose commitment to structure provided a way forward from the dead-end to which Wagner's unfettered chromaticism was bound to lead.
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Like his version of Schoenberg, it gives an outside perspective on a cultural fetish and those who fetishize it.
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The consonant music, by contrast, stimulated parts of the limbic system associated with pleasure, and the subjects' feelings were incontestably positive a neurological affirmation of the opinions of those who dislike Schoenberg's compositions.
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Schoenberg, by contrast, sought to express his inmost feelings in a raw, unmediated way instead of using large-scale tonal architecture to shape them into conventionally coherent structures.
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Like Schoenberg in the 20th century, Porpora was well-known as a composer in London in the 1730s he was second only to Handel in popularity as a writer of operas but equally famous for his students.
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