1. a composer or musician who creates or performs atonal music
Usage: music

Examples

• Schoenberg was a pioneering atonalist who abandoned traditional harmonic structures.
• The young atonalist’s compositions challenged conventional musical expectations.
• As an atonalist, she rejected the use of a tonal center in her works.
• The concert featured pieces by several prominent atonalists of the 20th century.
• Critics initially dismissed the atonalist movement as too experimental.
• The atonalist composer used twelve-tone techniques in his latest symphony.