Anton Webern

Anton Webern (* December 3rd 1883 with Vienna; † September 15th 1945 with Mittersill) is a Compositeur and Austrian Leader. One of the first pupils of Arnold Schönberg, it belongs to the first circle of the Second school of Vienna.

Its complete name is Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern , but it gives up the particle von in 1918.

At the beginning of the 20th century he forsakes the tonality. Towards 1920 - almost at the same time as Schönberg - Webern replaces free atonality by the more strict technique of the Dodécaphonisme. As from this moment, the music of Webern concentrates towards a total organization of the sounds not only according to their heights but also according to their durations. Whereas Schönberg and Alban Berg are tested with the great form, the art of Webern is achieved in the small highly concentrated form.

Concerned of the sonority of each instrument and the combination of their stamps (cf Five parts for orchestra COp 10 ), it sets up in its works the Klangfarbenmelodie .

In 1945, it is involuntarily killed by an American soldier who took part in an operation in the house of Webern (a family member was suspected of black-market), in his village of origin close to Salzburg whereas it left to smoke a cigar after the curfew.

Catalog works

This catalog includes/understands only numbered works.

Passacaille , for Orchestra, COp 1 (1908)
Entflieht auf Leichten Kähnen , for chorus has cappella on a text of Stefan George, COp 2 (1908)
Five Lied er on Der Siebente Ring , for voice and Piano, COp 3 (1907-08)
Five Lieder of Stefan George, for voice and piano, COp 4 (1908-09)
Five movements for String quartet, COp 5 (1909)
Six parts for full orchestra, COp 6 (1909-10, revised in 1928)
Four parts for Violin and piano, COp 7 (1910)
Two Lieder, on texts To groove Maria Rilke, for voice and piano, COp 8 (1910)
Six Trifle S for string quartet, COp 9 (1913)
Five parts for orchestra, COp 10 (1911-13)
Three small parts for Violoncello and piano, COp 11, (1914)
Four Lieder, for voice and piano, opus 12 (1915-17)
Four Lieder, for voice and piano, opus 13 (1914-18)
Six Lieder for voice, Clarinet, low clarinet, violin and violoncello, COp 14 (1917-21)
Five hymns, for voice and small unit, COp 15 (1917-22)
Five guns on texts Latin S, for Soprano, clarinet and low clarinet, COp 16 (1923-24)
Three crowned popular melodies, for voice, violin, clarinet and low clarinet, COp 17 (1924)
Three Lieder, for voice, clarinet in mi♭ and Guitar, COp 18 (1925)
Two Lieder, for mixed chorus, Celesta, guitar, violin, clarinet and low clarinet, COp 19 (1926)
Trio with cords, COp 20 (1927)
Symphony, COp 21 (1928)
Quartet for violin, clarinet, Saxophone tenor and piano, COp 22 (1930)
Three Lieder on Viae inviae of Hildegard Jone, for voice and piano, COp 23 (1934)
Concerto for Flute, Oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, violin, viola and piano, COp 24 (1934)
Three Lieder for voice and piano, COp 25 (1934-35)
Das Augenlicht , for mixed chorus and orchestra, COp 26 (1935)
Variations for piano, COp 27 (1936)
String quartet, COp 28 (1937-38) - of which the series is based on the Motif BACH
Cantate nº 1, for Soprano, chorus mixed and orchestrates, COp 29 (1938-39)
Variations , for orchestra, COp 30 (1940)
Cantate nº 2, for Soprano, low, chorus and orchestra, COp 31 (1941-43)

External bonds

Biography and study of Five parts for orchestra opus 10 of Webern
Biography of Webern

Simple: Anton Webern

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