Abstractionism in music is just over 100 years old. Largely a reaction to the artist's inner torment when coping with chaotic events, abstractionism dates to the summer of 1908 and the jilting of Arnold Schoenberg. Back then, his wife, Mathilde, left him in Vienna and spent several months with a young Austrian painter. The despair experienced by Schoenb…
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