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Six Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6 V. Sehr Langsam by Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Artist Biography For Anton Webern
Anton Webern 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945 Was An Austrian Composer And Conductor. He Was A Member Of The Second Viennese School. As A Student And Significant Follower Of Arnold Schoenberg He Became One Of The Best-Known Exponents Of The Twelve-Tone Technique In Addition His Innovations Regarding Schematic Organization Of Pitch Rhythm And Dynamics Were Formative In The Musical Technique Later Known As Total Serialism. Webern Was Not A Prolific Composer Just Thirty-One Of His Compositions Were Published In His Lifetime And When Pierre Boulez Oversaw A Project To Record All Of His Compositions Including Those Without Opus Numbers The Results Fit On Just Six CDs. However His Influence On Later Composers And Particularly On The Post-War Avant Garde Was Immense. His Mature Works Using Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Technique Have A Textural Clarity And Emotional Coolness Which Greatly Influenced Composers Such As Pierre Boulez Luigi Nono Karlheinz Stockhausen And Milton Babbitt. Like Almost Every Composer Who Had A Career Of Any Length Webern's Music Changed Over Time. However It Is Typified By Very Spartan Textures In Which Every Note Can Be Clearly Heard Carefully Chosen Timbres Often Resulting In Very Detailed Instructions To The Performers And Use Of Extended Instrumental Techniques Flutter Tonguing Col Legno And So On Wide-Ranging Melodic Lines Often With Leaps Greater Than An Octave And Brevity The Six Bagatelles For String Quartet 1913 For Instance Last About Three Minutes In Total. Webern's Earliest Works Are In A Late Romantic Style. They Were Neither Published Nor Performed In His Lifetime Though They Are Sometimes Performed Today. They Include The Orchestral Tone Poem Im Sommerwind 1904 And The Langsamer Satz 1905 For String Quartet. Webern's Tone Rows Are Often Arranged To Take Advantage Of Internal Symmetries For Example A Twelve-Tone Row May Be Divisible Into Four Groups Of Three Pitches Which Are Variations Such As Inversions And Retrogrades Of Each Other Thus Creating Invariance. This Gives Webern's Work Considerable Motivic Unity Although This Is Often Obscured By The Fragmentation Of The Melodic Lines. This Fragmentation Occurs Through Octave Displacement Using Intervals Greater Than An Octave And By Moving The Line Rapidly From Instrument To Instrument Sometimes And Somewhat Erroneously Called Klangfarbenmelodie . Webern's Last Pieces Seem To Indicate Another Development In Style. The Two Late Cantatas For Example Use Larger Ensembles Than Earlier Pieces Last Longer No. 1 Around Nine Minutes No. 2 Around Sixteen And Are Texturally Somewhat Denser. The Political Upheaval Brought To A Halt The Publication Of His Works. With Almost No Private Pupils Left Webern Had To Resort To Accepting Such Tasks As Piano Arrangements Of Works By Lesser Composers. Always Of A Retiring Disposition He Fell Into Total Obscurity With The Outbreak Of World War II. Webern's Disillusionment With The Hitler Regime Was Deepened By Increasing Bombing Raids. In February 1945 His Only Son Peter Was Killed In A Strafing Attack On A Train. When The Russian Army Neared Vienna The Composer And His Wife Fled To Mittersill Near Salzburg Where Their Three Daughters And Grandchildren Had Sought Refuge. Webern Was Accidentally Shot And Killed There By A Soldier In The U.S. Occupation Forces.
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Anton Webern 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945 Was An Austrian Composer And Conductor. He Was A Member Of The Second Viennese School. As A Student And Significant Follower Of Arnold Schoenberg He Became One Of The Best-Known Exponents Of The Twelve-Tone Technique In Addition His Innovations Regarding Schematic Organization Of Pitch Rhythm And Dynamics Were Formative In The Musical Technique Later Known As Total Serialism. Webern Was Not A Prolific Composer Just Thirty-One Of His Compositions Were Published In His Lifetime And When Pierre Boulez Oversaw A Project To Record All Of His Compositions Including Those Without Opus Numbers The Results Fit On Just Six CDs. However His Influence On Later Composers And Particularly On The Post-War Avant Garde Was Immense. His Mature Works Using Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Technique Have A Textural Clarity And Emotional Coolness Which Greatly Influenced Composers Such As Pierre Boulez Luigi Nono Karlheinz Stockhausen And Milton Babbitt. Like Almost Every Composer Who Had A Career Of Any Length Webern's Music Changed Over Time. However It Is Typified By Very Spartan Textures In Which Every Note Can Be Clearly Heard Carefully Chosen Timbres Often Resulting In Very Detailed Instructions To The Performers And Use Of Extended Instrumental Techniques Flutter Tonguing Col Legno And So On Wide-Ranging Melodic Lines Often With Leaps Greater Than An Octave And Brevity The Six Bagatelles For String Quartet 1913 For Instance Last About Three Minutes In Total. Webern's Earliest Works Are In A Late Romantic Style. They Were Neither Published Nor Performed In His Lifetime Though They Are Sometimes Performed Today. They Include The Orchestral Tone Poem Im Sommerwind 1904 And The Langsamer Satz 1905 For String Quartet. Webern's Tone Rows Are Often Arranged To Take Advantage Of Internal Symmetries For Example A Twelve-Tone Row May Be Divisible Into Four Groups Of Three Pitches Which Are Variations Such As Inversions And Retrogrades Of Each Other Thus Creating Invariance. This Gives Webern's Work Considerable Motivic Unity Although This Is Often Obscured By The Fragmentation Of The Melodic Lines. This Fragmentation Occurs Through Octave Displacement Using Intervals Greater Than An Octave And By Moving The Line Rapidly From Instrument To Instrument Sometimes And Somewhat Erroneously Called Klangfarbenmelodie . Webern's Last Pieces Seem To Indicate Another Development In Style. The Two Late Cantatas For Example Use Larger Ensembles Than Earlier Pieces Last Longer No. 1 Around Nine Minutes No. 2 Around Sixteen And Are Texturally Somewhat Denser. The Political Upheaval Brought To A Halt The Publication Of His Works. With Almost No Private Pupils Left Webern Had To Resort To Accepting Such Tasks As Piano Arrangements Of Works By Lesser Composers. Always Of A Retiring Disposition He Fell Into Total Obscurity With The Outbreak Of World War II. Webern's Disillusionment With The Hitler Regime Was Deepened By Increasing Bombing Raids. In February 1945 His Only Son Peter Was Killed In A Strafing Attack On A Train. When The Russian Army Neared Vienna The Composer And His Wife Fled To Mittersill Near Salzburg Where Their Three Daughters And Grandchildren Had Sought Refuge. Webern Was Accidentally Shot And Killed There By A Soldier In The U.S. Occupation Forces.
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