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| | The Musical Times: Anton Webern 1885-1945 |
 | | The lyric quality of his music distinguishes Webern from Schönberg whose faithful disciple he was. | | | Webern’s melodies almost invariably embrace the entire compass of the voice or the instruments he employs. | | | Webern had a deep insight into music, old and new. |
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http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/obits/194601webern.html
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| | Why give a day to the mad scientist of music? |
| | This bizarre dichotomy has led some interpreters to depict Webern as the mad scientist of music, a boffin who in the grim finality of the Third Reich found compositional uplift in the ethereal vocal canons of the medieval court composer Heinrich Isaac. | | | Concise as they are, his music requires unblinking concentration from the listener through a trail of disjointed plinks and energy spikes. | | | To Boulez and Stockhausen they amounted to an epiphanic revelation that structure in music arises from the order in which notes and intervals are used. |
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http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/050907-NL-webern.html
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| | Anton Webern by David Wright MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Webern was man of his time and the remark of Edgar Varese is relevant, "It is not that composers are ahead of their time; it is that listeners to music are, at last, fifty years behind the times." | | | But in Webern there is music that is nothing more than a whisper as if a lover is telling you something very private in your ear. | | | One cannot say that Webern's music is slushy or schmaltzy. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Jan03/webern_wright.htm
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| | The Glenn Gould Archive |
| | The use of silence as the frame of sound is, of course, as old as music itself. | | | The names of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern are so frequently linked as a trinity that the casual listener might presuppose a basis for stylistic identity among the masters of the modern Viennese school. | | | There is common to most musicians who have come under the influence of the Schoenbergian universe an approach toward music, classic as well as contemporary, which attempts through analysis, to reduce all sound forms to the lowest possible denominator. |
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http://www.uv.es/%7Ecalaforr/Webern/gould.htm
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| | After persistently pressing his case with the elder Webern, Anton was finally allowed to study music at the University of Vienna. | | | Webern's nerves were so badly shaken by this tragedy that he was unable to compose. | | | During the early part of his career, Webern was most active as a conductor of various theater orchestras throughout Europe. |
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http://www.chez.com/craton/musique/webern/webern.htm
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| | ANTON WEBERN |
| | But I was forever changed in my concept of writing or playing or listening to music again. | | | This transcended me to the music of John Cage would was my biggest influence in my artistic life. | | | Schoenberg's direction of Webern's musical development ended in 1908. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lasaltersjr/antonwebern.htm
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| | Anton Webern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Webern's music was denounced as "cultural Bolshevism" when the Nazi Party seized power in Austria in 1938. | | | Webern's last pieces seem to indicate another development in style. | | | There he helped to run Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances and conducted the Vienna Workers Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1934. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_von_Webern
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| | MTO 4.2: Alpern, Review, Webern and the Lyric Impulse |
| | Poignantly, it is the quintessentially structured music of Webern, the paragon of analytic formalism, in which the author asserts this theoretical imperative. | | | These are murky waters in which drifts in trying to assert lyricism as the cornerstone of Webern's music. | | | Webern's atonality is not an embryonic, inherently flawed stage of unsystematic musical chromaticism, eventually shedding its structural deficiencies and blossoming into the rational totalization of serialism. |
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http://societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.98.4.2/mto.98.4.2.alpern.html
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Anton Webern |
| | Webern wrote orchestral, choral, vocal, chamber and instrumental music, abandoning tonality in favour of atonal and serial techniques to produce concentrated music of great transparency and clarity. | | | Notable for the brevity of his music, Webern’s entire acknowledged output could be performed in a single evening | | | Unusual exploration into the idea of nature in Webern’s music. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/webern.shtml
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| | Anton Von Webern (1883-1945) was a pioneer in the composition of twelve-tone serial music. | | | Webern's music moves from tonality to atonality often. | | | Shreffler, Anne C. Webern and the Lyric Impulse Songs and Fragments on Poems of George Trakl Clardon Press Oxford 1994 |
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http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/aderington/webern.html
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| | Stefan George and Anton Webern |
| | Members of the Kreis had considered designing a form of notation for the performance of their poems, but, in the end, George claimed, there was no need for musical notation -- the music was contained within the poem itself. | | | Anton Webern: Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. | | | "Anton Webern: Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. |
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http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/Mus928george.html
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| | Anton von Webern - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Webern created a completely new sound and way of composing music, and in a sense he is the most "modern" of any composer listed here. | | | Webern created a completely new sound and way of composing music, and in a.. | | | An Austrian composer of atonal and 12-tone music in many forms, including songs, orchestral, chamber, and choral music; known for Six Pieces for Orchestra (1913). |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,508185,00.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Orchestral Music: Music |
| | Anton Webern (Composer), Takuo Yuasa (Conductor), Ulster Orchestra (Orchestra) | | | These works on this disc of orchestral music by Webern take us from 1908 through to 1940, during which period the composer progressively compressed his musical argument into the briefest time-frames. | | | (Indeed, at least half of Webern's oeuvre is vocal or choral, setting verses by poet-contemporaries like Georg Trakl and Hildegard Jone.) Take Webern's Symphony, Opus 21, of 1928; listen carefully to the opening bars. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005U4W7
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| | Anton Webern: Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 id |
| | It only includes those works that Webern published with an opus number, with the addition of the composer's wonderful orchestral transcription of the Ricercare a 6 from Bach's Musical Offering, and an old recording of Webern conducting his orchestrations of Schubert's German Dances. | | | These pieces still divide concert audiences today--I've been to Webern performances where half the audience was electrified and the other half clearly wanted to be elsewhere--but their historical significance cannot be denied. | | | A broadcast recording of Webern conducting a group of Schubert Dances makes a lively bonus. |
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http://ourlyrics.net.ru/ID_B000002707,petey_pablo
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| | Amazon.com: Complete Webern [BOX SET]: Music |
| | Webern is a composer whose entire output takes about six hours to listen to in its entirety, and it's all here, on six CDs. | | | The more that I listen to the works of Webern, the more I hear that each note must be just as it is. There is nothing wasted in this music. | | | Well, it's digitally recorded, and if ever a composer was born for CD, it's Webern. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R9F0?v=glance
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| | Off the Record Artis Quartett Wien |
| | This youngish Viennese ensemble captures all the contradictory aspects of Webern’s musical character. | | | The Artis Quartett gives the kind of passionate, highly intelligent performances with which Pierre Boulez has lately been championing Webern’s music. | | | With excellent sound and well-written program notes, this recording might just help us to answer yes to Schoenberg’s second question as well. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/otr/documents/01709070.htm
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| | Webern On Line |
| | The musical works of Anton Webern are not easy to understand for most of the audience. | | | If you have some observation about Webern's music, please send me a mail. | | | It is a pleasure to talk about this "music for a minority"... |
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http://www.uv.es/~calaforr/Webern/webern.htm
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| | MUSICAL WORKS OF ANTON WEBERN |
| | Webern wrote orchestrations of pieces for voice and piano written by several composers; (Bach, Liszt, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf) reductions of full orchestral Chamber Symphony Op. | | | Discography Webern The Complete Music Recorded under the Direction of Robert Craft Columbia Records Collectors Series CK4L-32 [Includes the Bach Ricercare and a few earlier pieces without opus numbers] | | | MTO 4.2: Alpern, Review, Webern and the Lyric Impulse |
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http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/webern.html
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| | Austria. Europe with a Difference |
| | Webern composed cantatas, lieder, choral music, pieces for piano, as well as orchestral and chamber music, and also held a series of lectures entitled ”The Path to New Music”. | | | Webern, who was a student of Arnold Schönberg, is considered the father of ”serial”, systematically deconstructed music. | | | On September 15, 1945, Anton von Webern was shot and killed by mistake in Mittersill in Salzburg province by a soldier of the American occupation forces in a raid intended to capture his son-in-law, who was involved in cigarette smuggling. |
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http://cms.austria.info/kultur_detail...2.html?_h=kultur&id=308794&_hm=301318&_um=&_b=c2&_ks=1
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| | Anton Webern - Classical Composers Database |
| | Anton Webern Collection, The (Early Vocal Music, 1899-1909) — Piano, Vocal, | | | Find more recordings for Anton Webern at Amazon.com | | | --> Look for sheet music from Webern at SheetMusicPlus.com |
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http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=webern
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| | Anton Webern (1883-1945) |
| | Webern's music can be considered "condensed" because of its small size and the great relative weight of each note that exists in Webern's compositions. | | | Chamber music : 6 bagatelles with string quartet, 1 trio for strings, 1 string quartet, 1 concerto for 9 instruments. | | | Participate in forums : tell us your opinion about everything concerning music technology ! |
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http://www.artissimo.gr/english/cm_composers/Anton_Webern.htm
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| | Anton Webern - German Dances (Schubert), D820 - 1, 2, 3 - Last.fm |
| | Of all 276 people that have listened to songs by Anton Webern, this represents 0.4%. | | | 1 people have listened to German Dances (Schubert), D820 - 1, 2, 3 by Anton Webern. | | | Anton Webern - German Dances (Schubert), D820 - 1, 2, 3 - Last.fm |
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http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/Anton+Webern/_/German+Dances+%28Schubert%29,+D820+-+1,+2,+3
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| | V060:Anton Webern zum 100. Geburtstag |
| | Narrator relates various critics' reactions to Webern's music, explains Webern's attitude toward composition and new music | | | Bresgen discusses Webern's orchestration of Bach's Musical Offering followed by a performance of the work | | | Bresgen comments on Webern's consciousness of his role in music history |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/schoenberg/videv060.htm
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| | Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Anton Webern |
| | All told, Webern left only about three hours' worth of compositions, but he is considered one of the seminal figures of 20th-century music. | | | His modern approach to music was branded "cultural Bolshevism" and "degenerate art" by the Nazis, and they banned performances of his works and those of his colleagues of the "New Vienna" school. | | | Webern's compositions were never much appreciated in his lifetime, and he was forced to earn his living by private lessons, conducting and arranging. |
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9362572&pt=Anton+Webern
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| | His works are appreciated by enthusiasts for their clear structure and purity of style, but their disjunct musical lines and austere quality have never gained a large audience. | | | Anton Webern (1883-1945) is a very classically oriented composer who wrote brief works in strict serial style. |
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http://home.olemiss.edu/~rvernon/quiz/q7-1a.html
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| | Academic Directory on Webern, Anton |
| | This elegant site, concise and imaginative like Webern's music, was designed by Ben Rubeck for PixelRush. | | | Music Theory Online: Music, Evolution, and the Ladder of Progress | | | From Emory University& 20th-Century Music site, created by Ben Arnold, this page offers a brief overview of Webern's life, works, and compositional style. |
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http://www.alllearn.org/er/tree.jsp?c=42664
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Anton Webern |
| | Find the music of Anton Webern in the Archives. | | | variations, and 3 cantatas in which the beauty of the vocal writing is a reminder of how much Webern derived from the medieval masters whose work he had studied. | | | Even in the earliest works to which he gave an opus no. there is preoccupation with the inter-relationship of symmetrical structures. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/webern.html
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| | 99Malls: Anton Webern Sheet Music and Scores |
| | Largest selection of classical sheet music editions to choose from ! | | | The best place to buy Webern sheet music and Webern scores online ! | | | Scores and Sheet music of Anton Webern ! |
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http://www.99malls.com/Sheet_Music/classical_scores/Anton_Webern.html
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| | ANTON WEBERN - FIFA |
| | Anton Webern, alongside Berg and Schönberg, is among the Viennese musicians who left their stamp on contemporary music. | | | The soundtrack serves as a model for what a filmmaker can offer a musician. | | | An employee had filed them, absent-mindedly no doubt, under the title Antoine Western. |
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http://www.artfifa.com/en/par-titre/view-1143.html
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| | Anton Webern |
| | (His complete work fits on three CDs.) Webern was particularly interested in symmetrical organizations of musical form (the palindrome, for example, where a piece pivots at the center and turns back on itself) and in serial arrangements of rhythm, dynamics, and modes of attack. | | | Webern, one of the pioneers (with Schoenberg and Berg) of serialism, was educated in Vienna, where he earned a doctoral degree in musicology (on the music of the Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac) simultaneous with his composition studies with Schoenberg. | | | For a decade he conducted orchestras in cities to the east, then in 1918, settled permanently in a suburb of Vienna, where he organized and encouraged new music groups and worked in radio broadcasting. |
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http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/masterworks/medialib/composers/webern_profile.html
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| | The Atonal Music of Anton Webern |
| | “Drawing on music-analytical procedures that he and other scholars have developed in recent years, Allen Forte argues that a single compositional system underlies all of Webern’s atonal music. | | | “The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) is one of the major figures of music modernism. | | | His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal music composed between 1907 and 1924, and the twelve-tone serial music that began in 1924 and extended through the remainder of his creative life. |
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http://www.allenforte.com/webern.html
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| | OhioLINK ETD: YORKE, SARAH |
| | Chapter I, "The Inspiring Text, begins this study by reconciling the seeming incompatibility of textual content with musical language. | | | This thesis approaches the works of Anton Webern's middle period, specifically Opera 15-18, by discussing the influence of text upon musical factors: a theoretical discourse on musical developments is not intended. | | | Opera 15-18 of Anton Webern: Musical Choices Inspired by Text |
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http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1063120070
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| | The Atonal Music of Anton Webern (Composers of the Twentieth Century S.) Allen Forte ISBN: 0300073526 | | | To find more books by Allen Forte Click Here | | | The Atonal Music of Anton Webern (Composers of the Twentieth Century S.) |
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http://www.bookhead.co.uk/0300073526.aspx
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| | ANTON WEBERN |
| | Instead of using notes to create a melody, he used them to create a color. | | | As the outbreak of World War II, Webern’s music was banned and he was required to support himself by private teaching. | | | Schoenberg created the twelve-tone system to determine pitch, whereas Webern expanded the system to determine tone color, dynamics, and rhythm. |
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http://lolo816.tripod.com/webern.htm
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| | Alibris: Anton Webern |
| | Webern's Passacaglia, a musical form based on a slow and stately Italian dance, demonstrates the influence of Schoenberg as well as Webern's own mastery. | | | This fine new edition is reproduced from an authoritative score. | | | by Reich, Willi (Editor), and Webern, Anton, and Black, Leo (Translated by) |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Anton_Webern
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Teachers & Followers: Anton Webern. Piano works by Webern, Wolpe, Herscovici, ... |
| | Schleiermacher's discs always reveal a keen awareness of 20th-century music history, and here he has produced a fascinating survey of piano pieces by a group of forgotten composers who were students of Anton Webern in the 1930s. | | | Most intriguing of all are the 20 tiny pieces in the Tombeau de Vincent van Gogh by the Dutch expatriate Fré Focke, which are as exemplary as his piano playing. | | | Piano works by Webern, Wolpe, Herscovici, Spinner, Focke, Elston, Leich & Searle, Stefan Schleiermacher |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1429733,00.html
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| | Anton Webern Recordings |
| | From alternative music to zydeco, bebop to hip-hop, the Essentials will lead you to the hundreds of artists and thousands of recordings that matter. | | | Anton Webern (1883-1945) had the misfortune of being accidentally shot dead by an American soldier in September 1945, well after the war in Europe had ended. | | | Webern had an almost ascetic sense of composition, writing a mere 31 works, nearly all of them brief, and compacting the 12-tone studies of Schoenberg into works that seem miniature in comparison to modernism's other stalwart pieces. |
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http://www.johnholleman.com/au/cwebern.html
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| | Anton Webern -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | After Schoenberg presented the system in 1924, Webern adopted it, composing relatively extended pieces such as the Symphony (1928), Concerto (1934), and Variations for Piano (1936). | | | While Schoenberg was developing the 12-tone method (see serialism) of composition into the 1920s, Webern was independently moving in a similar direction. | | | In 1904 he and his friend Alban Berg began composition lessons with Arnold Schoenberg, and Webern was soon combining atonality with complex counterpoint in the manner of Isaac, producing works distinctive for their extreme brevity and delicacy. |
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http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382462
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| | Telegraph Arts Delighted by the lapis-lazuli blues |
| | This concert fell into that unglamorous but vital category. | | | It was actually Webern's music that captured Cole's intention, with its fragile gestures of farewell. | | | In fact, it was an unfortunate pairing, and not just because Webern's burning concision makes almost any other music seems splashy and unfocused by comparison. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2005/12/07/bmsin07.xml
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| | Webern's Dodecaphonic Conspiracy |
| | Their more challenging works have long been considered unlistenable by some, and the question "Is it really music?" has frequently been posed. | | | The Webern work alluded to, "Variations for Orchestra, Op.30," was composed in 1940 – two years before the Manhattan Project began. | | | We're told that Webern and his comrades encoded data in their scores with help from the designers of "the Nazi Enigma code." More accurately, Enigma was a machine, the most sophisticated cryptological tool of its time. |
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa062998.htm
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | SCHOENBERG: Verklarte Nacht / WEBERN: Selected Piano and Chamber Works | | | Webern, with Alban Berg, was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna, moving in style to atonalism and then serial technique, writing music of brief concision and often of extreme delicacy. | | | Webern's sensitive technical command is shown in his Orchestral Variations of 1940, while his innovative approach to the past is demonstrated in his version of a Bach fugue, Fuga (Ricercata). |
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http://www.naxos.com/mainsite?pn=Composers&char=W&ComposerID=1115
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| | VH1.com : Anton Webern : Artist Main |
| | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern was the most influential of the three initial twelve-tone composers. | | | Add a link to your "Anton Webern" fan site on VH1.com! |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/webern__anton2/artist.jhtml
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| | Anton Webern |
| | Webern's modernist music was banned, and his works burned. | | | This is perhaps truest of Anton Webern, who began his musical career as a doctoral student in musicology, writing a dissertation on the music of Heinrich Isaac (c. | | | At the same time, Webern's music represents the most extreme statement of the ideals of the twelve-tone method of composition and is the most fundamentally radical of the three composers' works. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/shorter/composers/webern.htm
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| | Webern, Anton von |
| | CLICK HERE for Sheet Music by this composer. | | | Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629 | | | Of Schoenberg's two major pupils, Berg is the romantic and Webern is the classicist. |
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http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/webern1945.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Anton Von Webern (20th-century Composers S.): Books |
| | The text traces the development of Webern and his music. | | | As Schoenberg's pupil, he became a follower of the 12-note technique, and combined this with his love of chamber music to create his own sound. | | | Despite a prolific rate of composition in his early years, Webern's musical output is small and tends towards brevity. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714831573
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