A composer who creates music using the twelve-tone or dodecaphonic compositional method.
From 'dodecaphonism' + '-ist' (one who practices). This term emerged in early 20th-century music criticism to describe composers following Schoenberg's innovative twelve-tone method.
The first dodecaphonists—like Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern—were treated as musical rebels and rule-breakers, yet today conservatory students learn their techniques as essential classical tools, showing how revolutionary ideas become tomorrow's tradition.
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