Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky are two paragons of expressionism. They represent two major streams of compositional thought in the modern era. Schoenberg is known for his twelve-tone atonality, while Stravinsky is known for his contributions to neoclassicism and primitivism in music.
There was a good deal of animosity between the two composers, a fact that was well-known at the time, just as there was tension in the musical community between the supporters of their two compositional styles. Schoenberg and Stravinsky were famous for their use of fear and tension in their compositions to project emotion.
