The early tonal works of each composer are quite distinct - Schoenberg has an obsession with contrapunctal devices, Webern with short motivs and Berg - easily the best Tonal composer of the three - with a melodic structure based on short motes moving to longer suspensions. When the two younger composers studied under Scheonberg, their styles became, for a while, very similar to their teacher Arnold Schoenberg, but their individual personalities rapidly reasserted themselves. Webern deciding to move to a focus on particular musical processes, and Berg towards a lyrical and operatic style. Stirling S Newberry [log in to unmask]