This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had p
This collection of essays looks at the music of Webern from several different perspectives. Webern scholarship, based on the sketches and other primary material
The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) is one of the major figures of musical modernism. His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal
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This book is a collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist of our day, on one of the most controversial and influential composers of our century: A