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'''Anton Webern''' (1883-1945), [[Austrian]] [[composer]], was a leading student of [[Arnold Schoenberg]], part of the “Second Viennese School” with [[Alban Berg]], and more than any other, was uncompromising in following and expanding on, the atonal ideals, and later the serialist system, of the master.
'''Anton Webern''' (1883-1945), [[Austrian]] [[composer]], was a leading student of [[Arnold Schoenberg]], part of the “Second Viennese School” with [[Alban Berg]], and more than any other, was uncompromising in following and expanding on, the atonal ideals, and later the serialist system, of the master.
His output was small – only 31 works, and many of them miniatures (about 3 hours of music in all) – and his audience is also at a minimum due to the inaccessibility of his music which, despite (or perhaps, because of) possessing a degree of intellectual delicacy of form and intensity of manner, is almost impossible for the average music-lover to appreciate, despite the efforts of a small number of devoted apologists.
His output was small – only 31 works, and many of them miniatures (about 3 hours of music in all) – and his audience is also at a minimum due to the inaccessibility of his music which, despite (or perhaps, because of) possessing a degree of intellectual delicacy of form and intensity of manner, is almost impossible for the average music-lover to appreciate, despite the efforts of a small number of devoted apologists.
He died during the Allied occupation of Vienna at the end of [[World War II]] - shot by an an American soldier while enjoying a cigarette outside his front door during curfew.
Reference: ''The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music'' (1988) p.823
[[Category: Composers]]
[[Category: Composers]]
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