A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped ...
He explains how the music developed from Arnold Schoenberg's early expressionist ventures into atonality, to the cool jewel-like precision of his pupil Anton Webern. In conversation with art ...
Anton Weberns Langsamer Satz for string quartet ... and in the key of C Major it would be another twenty years before Webern turned to twelvetone technique Langsamer Satz premiered in 1962 ...