About Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. His eclectic music, which employs a wide range of techniques including dodecaphony and musical quotation, encompasses the styles of the avant-garde, serial, and postmodern. In 1929, Zimmermann began attending a private Catholic school, where he had his first real encounter with music. He created his own musical stance using the metaphor "the spherical form of time".
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