Anton Webern

Webern, Anton Von - änˈtōn fən vāˈbərn, 1883–1945, Austrian composer and conductor; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. He conducted theater orchestras in Prague and in various German cities until 1918, devoting himself thereafter to composition and teaching. His first composition, a passacaglia for orchestra (1908), which showed the postromantic Read More...

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Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl
by Anne C. Shreffler. 256 pgs.

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This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. The author's emphasis on Webern's compositional process is of particular importance: whether because of the anxiety of creating a new musical language, or because of an innate hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources--fragments, sketches, and fair copies--of Webern's comparatively neglected middle-period lieder enables her to shed light on Webern's musical language and his working methods.

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Editor's Preface

Preface

List of Plates

List of Plates (appear Between Pages 130 and 131)

List of Musical Examples (all Webern with Trakl Texts Unless Otherwise Noted)

Abbreviations

Part I Webern and Trakl

1. Introduction: Webern and Lyric Expression

Part II Webern's Compositional Process

3. Compositional Process

Part III the Trakl Fragments

5. Proportion and Motive in Webern's Earliest Trakl Fragments

Part IV the Completed Works: Aspects of Music and Text in Webern's Sechs Lieder, Op. 14

8. 'Abendland Iii' (op. 14 No. 4): Multiple Reference in Music and Text

9. 'Abendland' II and I: New Variants of Formal Models

10. `Gesang Einer Gefangenen Amsel' (op. 14 No. 6): a Two-Year Preoccupation

Works Cited

Index of Names and Works
2 .

European Music in the Twentieth Century ("Alban Berg and Anton Webern" begins on p. 94)
by Howard Hartog. 341 pgs.

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Contributors

Introduction

The Music of Béla Bartók

Stravinsky

Paul Hindemith

Arnold Schönberg's Development Towards the Twelve-Note System

Alban Berg and Anton Webern

Modern Music in Scandinavia

English Contemporary Music

Swiss Contemporary Music

Italian Contemporary Music

German Contemporary Music

The Soviet Union

Modern French Music

Czechoslovakia and Poland

Nikos Skalkottas

Index
3 .

An Introduction to Twentieth Century Music (Chap. XI "Berg and Webern")
by Peter S. Hansen. 380 pgs.

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Title Page

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

Preface

Contents

Part One: 1900-1914

Chapter I: Nineteenth Century Background

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Chapter II: Paris

Chapter III: Paris: Other Composers

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Chapter IV: Germany and Austria

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Chapter V: Music in America

Chapter VI: Experiments in Music

Part Two: 1914-1945

Chapter VII: Paris After World War I

Chapter VIII: Les Trois

Chapter IX: Stravinsky

Chapter X: Schoenberg

Chapter XI: Berg and Webern

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Chapter XII: Bartók

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Chapter XIII: Hindemith

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Chapter XIV: Soviet Russia

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Chapter XV: England

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Chapter XVI: Music in America

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Part III: 1945-1960

Chapter XVII: New Directions

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References

Composers*

Index
4 .

Musical Trends in the 20th Century (Chap. Nineteen "Anton Von Webern (1884-1945)")
by Norman Demuth. 364 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: The French Genius

Chapter Two: Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Chapter Three: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Chapter Four: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Chapter Five: Albert Roussel (1869-1937)

Chapter Six: Les Six and Their Aims

Chapter Seven: Darius Milhaud (1892)

Chapter Eight: Arthur Honegger (1892)

Chapter Nine: The English Panorama

Chapter Ten: Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Chapter Eleven: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Chapter Twelve: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872)

Chapter Thirteen: Sir Arnold Bax (1883)

Chapter Fourteen: Sir William Walton (1902)

Chapter Fifteen: The German Tragedy

Chapter Sixteen: Gebrauchsmusik Kurt Weill (1900-1950)--Paul Hindemith (1895)

Chapter Seventeen: The Austrian Debacle

Chapter Eighteen: Arnold Schoenberg

Chapter Nineteen: Anton Von Webern (1884-1945)

Chapter Twenty: Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Chapter Twenty-One: The American Naissance

Chapter Twenty-Two: Composers in Isolation I. Jean Sibelius (1865)

Chapter Twenty-Three: 2. Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Chapter Twenty-Four: 3. Igor Stravinsky (1882)

Chapter Twenty-Five: 4. Eugene Goossens (1893)

Chapter Twenty-Six: Composers in Isolation

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Outlook

Index of Music Examples

Index
5 .

A History of Modern Music (Chap. 2 "Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg")
by Paul Collaer, Sally Abeles. 416 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Chronology

2: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg

3: Igor Stravinsky

4: Music in France after Debussy

5: Erik Satie and the Six

6: Milhaud, Honegger, Auric, Poulenc: after the Six

7: French Music after the Six

8: Music in Soviet Russia

9: German Music after Richard Strauss

10: Nationalism and Eclecticism

Conclusion

Musical Examples

Appendix: Modern Music and Lyric Theater

Index
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The Modern Age, 1890-1960 ("Alban Berg and Anton Webern" begins on p. 362)
by Martin Cooper. 766 pgs.

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Editorial Board

General Introduction

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction to Volume X

Introduction

I The Apogee and Decline of Romanticism: 1890-1914

Introduction

II The Reaction Against Romanticism: 1890-1914

III Stage Works: 1890-1918

IV Music in the Mainland of Europe: 1918-1939

V Music of the European Mainstream: 1940-1960

VI Music in Britain: 1916-1960

Introduction

VII American Music: 1918-1960

VIII Music in the Soviet Union

Bibliography

List of Contents of the History of Music in Sound Volume X

Index
7 .

Composers on Composers ("Anton Von Webern (1883-1945)" begins on p. 160)
by John L. Holmes. 192 pgs.

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This important compilation lends a new perspective to music criticism by gathering the comments of 85 well-known composers concerning the work of their peers. Encompassing all forms of commentary, from caustic attacks to perceptive criticism and praise, the book offers new insights into the development of music and its most important creators by collecting under each composer's name the remarks made about him by other composers.

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Introduction

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [l7L4-1788]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685- 1775)

Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)

BéLa BartóK (1881-1945)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Vincenzo Bellini {1801-1835)

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)

Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Pierre Boulez (B.1925)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

John Cage (B. 1912)

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)

Carlos CháVez (1899-1978)

Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)

FréDéRic Chopin (1810-1849)

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

Aaron Copland (B. 1900)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Antonín DvořáK (1841-1904)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

César Franck (1812-1890)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

Christoph Gluck (1714-1787)

Carl Goldmark (1830-1915)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Roy Harris (1898-1979)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Hans Werner Henze (B. 1926)

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)

ZoltáN KodáLy (1882-1967)

ÉDouard Lalo (1823-1892)

Franz LeháR (1870-1948)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Olivier Messiaen (B. 1908)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

Giovanni Palestrina (C. 1525-1594)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Johann Strauss (1825-1899)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883]

Carl Maria Von Weber (1786-1826)

Anton Von Webern (1883-1945)

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)

Notes and Sources

Index of Composers

About the Author
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Composers of Today: A Comprehensive Biographical and Critical Guide to Modern Composers of All Nations ("Anton Webern 1883-" begins on p. 292)
by David Ewen. 316 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Joseph Achron 1886-

George Antheil 1900-

Kurt Atterberg 1887-

Louis Aubert 1877-

Georges Auric 1899-

Granville Bantock 1868-

Béla Bartók 1881-

Arnold Bax 1883-

Robert Russell Bennett 1894-

Lord Berners 1883.

Julius Bittner 1874-

Arthur Bliss 1891-

Marc Blitzstein 1905-

Ernest Bloch 1880-

Rutland Boughton 1878-

Walter Braunfels 1882-

Frank Bridge 1879-

Alfred Bruneau 1857-1934

Charles Wakefield Cadman 1881-

Alfredo Casella 1883-

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895-

Juan José Castro 1895-

Gustave Charpentier 1860.

Frederick Shepherd Converse 1871-

Henry Cowell 1897-

Sir Frederic H. Cowen 1852-

Sir Walford Davies 1869-

Claude Debussy 1862-1918

Frederick Delius 1863-1934

Ernst Von Dohnányi 1877.

Arcady Dubensky 1890-

Paul Dukas 1865-

Paul Dupin 1865-

Georges Enesco 1881-

Manuel De Falla .1876-

Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924

Henri Gagnebin 1886-

Philippe Gaubert 1879-

George Gershwin 1898-

Umberto Giordano 1867-

Alexander Glazunov 1865-

Reinhold Glière 1874-

Michael Gniessin 1883-

Paul Graener 1872-

Percy Grainger 1882-

Alexander Gretchaninoff 1864-

Louis Gruenberg 1883-

Alois Hába 1893-

Henry Hadley 1871-

Reynaldo Hahn 1874-

Howard Hanson 1896-

Sandor Harmati 1892-

Roy Harris 1898-

Edward Burlingame Hill 1872-

Paul Hindemith 1895-

Gustav Holst 1874-1934

Arthur Honegger 1892-

Herbert Howells 1892-

Jacques Ibert 1890-

Vincent D'Indy 1851-1931

Michael Ippolitov-Ivanov 1859-

John Ireland 1879-

Frederick Jacobi 1891-

Leoš Janáček 1854-1928

Werner Janssen 1900-

Joseph Jongen 1873.

Werner Josten 1888-

Paul Juon 1872-

Heinrich Kaminski 1886-

Wilhelm Kienzl 1857-

Lyof Knipper 1898-

Zoltan Kodály 1882-

Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897-

A. Walter Kramer 1890-

Alexander Kreyn 1883-

Ladislas Lajtha 1892-

Constant Lambert 1905-

Charles Martin Loeffler 1861-

Nikolai Lopatnikoff 1903-

Igor Markevitch 1912-

Frank Martin 1890-

Bohuslav Martinu 1890-

Joseph Marx 1882-

Pietro Mascagni 1863-

Daniel Gregory Mason 1873-

Nikolai Medtner 1880-

Nikolai Miaskovsky 1881-

Georges Migot 1891-

Darius Milhaud 1892-

Italo Montemezzi 1875-

Harold Morris 1890-

Alexander Mossolov 1900-

Leo Ornstein 1895-

Ignace Jan Paderewski 1860-

Hans Pfitzner 1869-

Willem Pijper 1894-

Paul Pisk 1893-

Walter Piston 1894-

Ildebrando Pizzetti 1880-

Francis Poulenc 1899-

John Powell 1882-

Serge Prokofieff 1891-

Henri Rabaud 1873-

Serge Rachmaninoff 1873-

Maurice Ravel 1875-

Rhené-Baton 1879-

Wallingford Riegger 1885.

Vittorio Rieti 1898-

Roger-Ducasse 1875-

Dane Rudhyar 1895-

Carl Ruggles 1876-

Victor De Sabata 1892-

Lazare Saminsky 1882-

Ernest Schelling 1876-

Joseph Schillinger 1895-

Max Von Schillings 1868-1933

Florent Schmitt 1870.

Arnold Schönberg 1874-

Cyril Scott 1879-

Alexander Scriabin 1871-1915

Bernhard Sekles 1872-

Roger Sessions 1896-

Dmitri Shostakowitch 1906-

Christian Sinding

Leone Sinigaglia 1868-

David Stanley Smith 1877

Leo Sowerby 1895-

William Grant Still 1895-

Albert Stoessel 1894-

Richard Strauss 1864-

Igor Stravinsky 1882-

Edwin J. Stringham 1890-

Alexander Tansman 1897-

Deems Taylor 1885-

Alexander Tcherepnine 1899-

Nikolai Tcherepnine 1873-

Virgil Thomson 1896-

Ernest Toch 1887-

Vincenzo Tommasini 1880-

Joaquin Turina 1882.

Edgar Varèse 1885-

Ralph Vaughan-Williams 1872-

Hector Villa-Lobos 1886-

H. Waldo-Warner 1874-

William Walton 1902-

Anton Webern 1883-

Kurt Weill 1900-

Jaromir Weinberger 1896-

Leo Weiner 1885-

Adolph Weiss 1891-

Egon Wellesz 1885-

Alexander Weprik .1899-

Riccardo Zandonai 1883-

Bibliography of Modern Music

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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America (Chap. IX "The Twelve-Tone System")
by Robert P. Morgan. 554 pgs.

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This series presents the music of the Western world to the nonspecialist in six original, strikingly illustrated volumes. In each one, an outstanding musicologist surveys the music of a specific period, discusses its major composers, and examines the forces that influenced and helped shape their oeuvre.

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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Musical Background

Part I: Beyond Tonality: from 1900 to World War I

Chapter I: The Historical Context: Europe at the Turn of the Century

Chapter II: Some Transitional Figures

Chapter III: The Atonal Revolution

Chapter IV: New Tonalities

Chapter V: Other European Currents

Chapter VI: Beyond the Continent

Part II: Reconstruction and New Systems: between the Wars

Chapter VII: The Historical Context: Europe after World War I

Chapter VIII: Neo-Classicism

Chapter IX: The Twelve-Tone System

Chapter X: The Influence of Politics

Chapter XI: Other Europeans

Chapter XII: England after World War I

Chapter XIII: The United States

Chapter XIV: Latin America

Part III: Innovation and Fragmentation: from World War II to the Present

Chapter XV: The Historical Context: the World after World War II

Chapter XVI: Integral Serialism

Chapter XVII: Indeterminacy

Chapter XVIII: Innovations in Form and Texture

Chapter XIX: The New Pluralism

Chapter XX: A Return to Simplicity: Minimalism and the New Tonality

Chapter XXI: Music and the External World

Chapter XXII: Developments in Technology: Electronic Music

Chapter XXIII: Epilogue: Music Today

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