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Anton Webern
12+ albums
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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 (191
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WEBERN: Passacaglia / Symphony / Five Pieces
Anton Webern: Piano Music, 1904 - 1936
WEBERN: Symphony, Op. 21 / Six Pieces, Op. 6 / Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
Webern, A.: Symphony / 6 Pieces, Op. 6 / Concerto
Boulez Conducts Webern
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Anton Webern: Complete Works: Op. 1 - Op. 31
Boulez conducts WEBERN II
Webern: The Complete String Trios and Quartets
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Webern: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7
Webern: Complete Works, Op. 1 - Op. 31
Webern: Chamber Music for Strings