atonalist

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a·ton·a·list

(ā-tō′nə-lĭst)

One who composes atonal music.

atonalist

(eɪˈtəʊnəlɪst)

a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale

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It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word.

In musica bohemica ET slovaca the reception of John Cage's music in the Czech lands and Slovakia

Meanwhile, he repeatedly identifies Schoenberg and his pupils Webern and Alban Berg with the demonic atonalist composer Adrian Leverkuhn in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, who proposes to "take back" Beethoven's Ode to Joy once and for all.

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There was also no piece of music, from medieval chansons to the most contemporary atonalist, that he didn't have in his vast collection of records and tapes.