Style
His works written up to 1930 or so are more or less neoclassical in style. Those written between 1930 and 1940 are more or less tonal but harmonically complex. The works from 1946 through 1951 are atonal. From the Solo Violin Sonata of 1953 on, he wrote almost exclusively in a serial style.
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