Anton Webern

thumb|Anton Webern Anton von Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer of atonal music. Quotes Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing. The Path to the New Music Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. Letter to Alban Berg. Hayes, Malcolm. 1995. Anton von Webern, p. 71 About Webern attracts me, though there's a lot that I don't understand. His music is a combination of purity, complexity and abstraction in the very best sense of the term. Sviatoslav Richter, in Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (2001) Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. Igor Stravinsky "[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality" Karel Goeyvaerts, quoted in: 1994. "Paris: Darmstadt 1947-1956: Excerpt from the Autobiographical Portrait", translated by Patrick Daly, Peter Vosch, and Roger Janssens. p. 39 External links Category:Composers from Austria Category:People from Vienna Category:1883 births Category:1945 deaths