Written before he gained his reputation as one of the 20th Century's leading avant-garde "12 tone'"composers, Vienna's own
Anton Webern composed his lyrical and passionate Langsamer Satz - or Slow Movement - when 21 and in love with his cousin, whom he later married.
She begins by mapping aesthetic and cultural boundaries in discussions of landscaping German song, modernism, genre, and musical perspectives Then she profiles Lieder composers Hans Pfitzner, Hanns Eisler, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Sch|nber, Alban Berg, and
Anton Webern. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
He borrowed freely from the music of
Anton Webern, John Cage and others and also composed electronically.
The vocal works of Arnold Schoenberg,
Anton Webern, and Alban Berg, composers often referred to as The Second Viennese School, are often neglected due to the assumption that the works will be atonal and therefore musically unachievable for performers and unsatisfying for audiences.
During his university years, Young was impressed by the music of Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy, Indian classical music, and the serialism of Arnold Schoenberg and
Anton Webern. In 1959 Young studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen at Darmstadt.
Apres l'entracte elles ont joue pour
Anton Webern, six bagatelles pour quatuor a cordes-1913 et pour Claude Debussy, quatuor op.10-1893.
Essays address music functioning within esoteric and scientific traditions and theories and works by authors like Marsilio Ficino, Tommaso Campanella, Athanasius Kircher, Johannes Kepler, Marin Mersenne, Abu Ma'shar, and Giovanni Battista della Porta, or the influence of those traditions on musical works, such as pieces by John Dowland, Ferruccio Busoni, Orlando di Lasso, Alexander Scriabin, and
Anton Webern. Some essays are in French or Italian, with English abstracts.
Music by Debussy, Gyorgy Kurtag,
Anton Webern, Liszt, Michael Blake, Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Paul Hanmer, JH Kwabena Nketia, Joshua Uzoigwe and Kevin Volans will also be performed.
This critical material could possibly defeat a reader, and it might have been better to include short biographical outlines of Blinding Moment's subjects:
Anton Webern, Beethoven, Handel, and Olivier Messiaen.