When Did 12-tone Music Start?

When Did 12-tone Music Start? The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his “law of the twelve tones” in 1919. Who is the father of 12-tone music? Arnold Schoenberg developed the influential 12-tone