The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Sch nberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Sch nberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy...