Every phrase was carefully defined, and Webern’s silences were embraced as part of the music’s fabric. Iannis Xenakis’s “Evryali” (1973) is everything the Webern is not.

The Sejongs are back with music by Anton Webern (1883-1945). Clocking in at about nine minutes, his "Langsamer Satz" or "Slow Movement" is the longest piece of music Webern ever wrote.

Webern was ordered to stop, misunderstood the order, approached the soldier and was shot dead. More than Berg and Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary ...

Webern dedicated the 1934 score to his teacher, Schoenberg, on his 60th birthday. The elder composer had just emigrated from Berlin to L.A. to flee the Nazis.

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When classical-music discussions of serial (or 12-tone) music come up, people usually end up choosing fairly strict sides. Both groups agree that the methodology changed the perceptions of ...

Webern Day continues into the evening, when Andrew McGregor and guest panellists discuss his life and work, focussing on the music he wrote between 1924 and his untimely death in 1945.

Long before developing his distinctively sparse, crystalline approach to Schoenberg’s 12-tone technique, Anton Webern was an up-and-comer writing in a late Romantic style whose expressive ...

Anton Webern: "Someone once said that in Webern's music, a novel would last as long as a sigh, and there's a love story in every trill… He tried to reduce it to its essence." Seventy years ago this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not too surprising that the somewhat mathematically-minded alto saxophonist John Gallagher should be drawn ...

Title: Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 Composer: Anton Webern Artist: Timo-Veikko Valve (cello) and Aura Go (piano) Performed Live in The Music Show studio.