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Webern, A.: Symphony / 6 Pieces, Op. 6 / Concerto

7/2/2005, 42 Tracks, 1:19:12

Featuring

  • Robert Craft
  • Jennifer Welch-Babidge
  • Charles Neidich
  • Michael Lowenstern
  • Jesse Mills
  • Scott Kuney
  • Ani Kavafian
  • Richard O'Neill
  • Fred Sherry
  • Jennifer Frautschi
  • Christopher Oldfather
  • Daniel Goble
  • David Fedele
  • Stephen Taylor
  • Christopher Gekker
  • William Purvis
  • James Pugh
  • Sunghae Anna Lim
  • Stephen Gosling
  • Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Anton Webern
  • Franz Schubert

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Compositional Technique

Webern's Symphony, Op. 21, is a twelve-tone piece featuring a double canon with horizontal and vertical symmetries, mirrors, and palindromes.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Anton Webern, a devout Catholic and nature mystic, was Arnold Schoenberg's most devoted pupil and a close friend of Alban Berg.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Webern, with 'incomparable sensitivity,' orchestrated Schubert's German Dances for small orchestra after their rediscovery in 1930.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Anton Webern was shot and killed by an American soldier in Mittersill, Austria, on September 15, 1945, in a tragic, unwitnessed incident.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Robert Craft, the conductor, is recording the complete works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Webern for Naxos and has won multiple awards for his recordings.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Webern's music was classified as 'degenerate' by the National Socialist Party, which forbade its performance and publication.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Webern's career as a composer was met with ridicule from audiences and invective from the press.

Source: Booklet

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