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Yet these works are still informed by his cultivated sense of character and theatrical form. . He was a pupil of Humperdinck, Busoni and Jarnach in Berlin (1918-23); their teaching informed his early music, including the choral Recordare (1923) and the Concerto for violin and wind (1924), the latter also influenced by Stravinsky. In 1926 he married the singer Lotte Lenya, who was to be the finest interpreter of his music. Yet this is done within the context of a new harmonic consistency and focus. |