Austrian composer who, together with Schoenberg and Webern, was a principal figure in the Second Viennese School which pioneered atonality and the use of the twelve-note system of composition.
His opera Wozzeck is his best-known work. There is also an important Violin Concerto and a Lyric Suite for String Quartet.
He died from the effects of blood poisoning after being bitten by an insect.
