Anton Webern

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Anton Webern studied musicology in Vienna and was one of Schoenberg's first pupils. He adopted the twelve-tone method and turned it into extremely concentrated music in which every note counts and silences weigh as heavily as sounds. His Symphony, Op. 21 of 1928 lasts only about ten minutes and is built from mirrorings and canons. After the Second World War he became the great example for the young serialists in Darmstadt.

Listening

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  Symfonie op. 21: I. Ruhig schreitend (Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez) · Anton Webern, 1928
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  Fünf Stücke für Orchester op. 10: III. Sehr langsam (Robert Craft) · Anton Webern, 1913
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  Variationen op. 27: I. Sehr mäßig (Maurizio Pollini) · Anton Webern, 1936

Discography

Studio albums

• 1950Symphony, op. 21
• 1957The Complete Music Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft
• 1967Schönberg: Suite op. 29 / Webern: Trio op. 20 / Webern: Quartet op. 22
• 1970Complete Music for String Quartet
• 1971Neue Wiener Schule: Die Streichquartette
• 1971Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire / Webern: Zwei Lieder, op. 8 / Fünf Canon, op. 16 / Boulez: Improvisation sur Mallarmé
• 1979新ウィーン楽派ピアノ作品集成
• 1980Orchestral Music: op. 1 / op. 6 / op. 10 / op. 21 / op. 30 / Ricercata
• 1983Chamber & Piano Works
• 1985Berg: String Quartet / Webern: Five Movements / Zemlinsky: String Quartet no. 3
• 1986Neue Wiener Schule
• 1986Webern: String Trio / Quartet Rondo / Piano Quintet / Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon
• 1987Orchesterstücke
• 1987Streichtrios der Neuen Wiener Schule
• 1988Lieder
• 1988Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande / Webern: Passacaglia
• 1989Bruno Maderna interpreta Malipiero e Webern / Sergiu Celibidache interpreta Dallapiccola
• 1989Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: Orchestral Works
• 1989Schoenberg: 5 Orchesterstücke, op. 16 / Webern: 6 Orchesterstücke, op. 6 / Berg: Lulu-Suite
• 1990La nuova musica, Volume 8: Stravinsky: Elegy for J.F.K. / Abraham and Isaac / Webern: Das Augenlicht / Kantaten I, II / Dallapiccola: Cinque canti / Boulez: Le Soleil des eaux
• 1990Metamorphosen / Verklärte Nacht / 5 Sätze
• 1991Berg: Suite lyrique / Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit / Webern: Langsamer Satz
• 1991Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire / Webern: Concerto, op. 24
• 1991Violin Concerto / Lyric Suite
• 1992Liszt: Sonata / Zweite Elegie / Nuages gris / Berg: Sonata / Webern: Variations
• 1992Lutosławski: Grave / Webern: Three Little Pieces / Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor
• 1992String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Langsamer Satz
• 1992The Orchestral Pieces
• 1992Webern: String Quartet 1905 / Slow Movement / Rondo for String Quartet / 5 Movements, op. 5 / Bagatelles, op. 9 / String Quartet, op. 28 / Gielen: Variations for String Quartet
• 1993Mahler 6 / Schoenberg: 5 Orchesterstücke / Webern: Im sommerwind
• 1993Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 36, 38-41 / Webern: Orchestral Works
• 1993Neue Wiener Schule
• 1993Orchestral Works
• 1993Transformations for Strings
• 1994Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande / Webern: Passacaglia
• 1994Streichquartette
• 1995Black Angels
• 1995Boulez Conducts Webern
• 1995Boulez Conducts Webern, II
• 1995Glenn Gould Plays Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
• 1995Kremerata Musica
• 1995Lieder
• 1995Schumann: Symphony no. 3 'Rheinische' / Webern: Fünf Stücke for Orchestra, op. 10 / Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4
• 1995Works for String Quartet / String Trio, op. 20
• 1996Bach: English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 / Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op 110 / Webern: Variations, Op. 27
• 1996Boulez Conducts Webern, III
• 1996L'Œuvre pour quatuor à cordes
• 1996Schumann: Symphony no. 1 “Frühlingssymphonie” / Webern: Fünf Sätze, op. 5 / Symphony, op. 21 / Schönberg: Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene
• 1996Schumann: Symphony no. 2 / Webern: Im Sommerwind / Schönberg: Kammersymphonie no. 1, op. 9
• 1997Beethoven / Webern / Schoenberg / Ligeti / Boulez
• 1997Variations
• 1997Webern: Langsamer Satz / Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8 / Burian: String Quartet no. 4
• 1999Im Sommerwind / Orchestral Pieces / Variations
• 1999Piano Music
• 1999Schoenberg, Berg, Webern: Orchestral Works
• 2000Boulez: Livre pour quatuor / Webern: Trio, op. 20 / Mouvement pour trio à cordes
• 2000Mahler: Symphony No.3 / Schubert: Romsamunde / Webern: Six pieces for Orchestra
• 2000Piano Works
• 2000Recital 2000
• 2001Alban Berg: String Quartet, Lyric Suite - Anton Webern: String Quartet
• 2001Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio
• 2001Nuits – weiß wie Lilien
• 2001Passacaglia / Symphony / Five Pieces
• 2001Schoenberg: Piano Concerto / Klavierstücke, op. 11 & op. 19 / Berg: Sonata, op. 1 / Webern: Variations, op. 27
• 2003Chamber Music for Strings
• 2003Ricercar
• 2004Symphony, op. 21 / Six Pieces, op. 6 / Concerto for Nine Instruments, op. 24
• 2004Webern / Schoenberg / Berg
• 2005Complete Works for Piano
• 2005Schoenberg / Webern
• 2006Arpeggione Sonata
• 2006Music of the Viennese School
• 2007Complete Songs With Piano
• 2007Gielen: Pflicht und Neigung / Schönberg: Die glückliche Hand, op. 18
• 2007Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht / Berg: Lyrischen Suite / Webern: Passacaglia
• 2007Vocal and Orchestral Works
• 2008Schönberg: Streichquartett Nr. 2 / Webern: Langsamer Satz / Berg: Die geheime Gesangstimme
• 2009Schoenberg / Berg / Webern
• 2010The Austro‐German Line
• 2011Hagen Quartett 30
• 2011The String Quartet and the Voice
• 2011Webern: Passacaglia - Brahms: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Symphony No. 4
• 2012Pfitzner: Symphony in C major / Schumann: Konzertstück for Four Horns
• 2012Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet / Webern: Langsamer Satz / Rääts: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, op. 16 / Vasks: String Quartet no. 4
• 2013Amoroso
• 2013Webern, Wolpe & Feldman
• 2014Visions fugitives: Music for Strings
• 2015Chamber Music
• 2015Concord
• 2015Vocal and Chamber Works
• 2016Schoenberg, Berg, Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
• 2016Webern / Beethoven / Yun
• 2017Brahms / Schoenberg / Bach / Webern
• 2018Brahms the Progressive
• 2018Into the Light
• 2020Berg / Webern / Schreker
• 2020Vienna 1905-1910
• 2021From the Early 20th, Vol. 2
• 2021Vesinkende Sonne
• 2022Bach / Berg / Schoenberg / Webern
• 2022Berg: String Quartet Op. 3 / Webern: Langsamer Satz / Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
• 2022Lieder Der Neuen Wiener Schule / Songs Of The New Vienna School
• 2022Schönberg: Kammersymphonie, op. 9 / Sechs kleine Stücke, op. 19 / Webern: Symphonie, op. 21 / Fünf Sätze, op. 5
• 2023Prism V
• 2023Variation[s], Vol. 1
• 2024Beethoven: Cello Sonatas / Webern: Works for Cello and Piano
• 2024Piano Works
• 2025Vienna 1908-1914
• 2026Out of Vienna
• ?Anton Webern: Piano Music, 1904 - 1936
• ?Complete Music for String Quartet
• ?Glenn Gould plays Berg, Webern, Schönberg
• ?Passacaglia / 5 Movements for String Orchestra Op. 5 / 6 Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6 / Symphony Op.21

Mentioned in other articles

• Atonality and twelve-tone music GenreHis pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern continued to work with it, Berg even in a moving violin concerto in 1935.

See also

• Atonality and twelve-tone music
• Serialism
• Arnold Schönberg
• Gustav Mahler
• Pierre Boulez
• Karlheinz Stockhausen