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Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
Klangfarbenmelodie
alt=Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).|thumb|Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).
Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.