Choose 3 musical pioneers of the early XXth century ( between R.Strauss, G.Mahler, A.Schoenberg, I.Stravinsky, Alban Berg ) whose work can also exemplify well the significance of Wagner’s orchestration and approach to leitmotives. explain how they drew upon Wagner but produced compositional result quite different from Wagner and from each other.

choose 3 musical pioneers of the early XXth century ( between R.Strauss, G.Mahler, A.Schoenberg, I.Stravinsky, Alban Berg ) whose work can also exemplify well the significance of Wagner’s orchestration and approach to leitmotives. Then select 1 or 2 compositions by two of his successors to serve a case studies for explaining how they drew upon Wagner but produced compositional result quite different from Wagner and from each other.