Mark D. Lew:
Your dictionary is probably just following the NED, first edition, wh. gives the same citation. While I have noticed other occasions on wh. NED clearly gives too late a date for the origin of certain musical terms ("cotillon" comes immediately to mind), I suspect that we're dealing here with a word that originated in another language and was adopted by English relatively late. Certainly "atonal" would have been used first in German.MW shows 1922 as its [the word atonal] earliest documented written use of "atonal". As the dictionary's prefatory material explains, this doesn't necessarily mean the word wasn't in use well before that
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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
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