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"I never understood what I had done to them to make them so malicious, so angry, so malicious, so aggressive...", Schoenberg lamented..., as he began his journey of no return towards atonality.

Arnold Schönberg, Erwin Stein, Anton Webern.

Alban Berg, 1914

Webern | Passacaglia

Anton Webern, Slow movement for string quartet (1905). Emerson String Quartet

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Marc Daniel van Biemen - Violine Annebeth Webb - Violine Vilèm Kijonka - Viola Joris van den Berg - Violoncello

Sound Revolution: Berg, Webern and Shoenberg's musical legacy

Explores the genius of Berg and Webern in the musical context of the 20th century — a journey into the symphonic metamorphosis they created.

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern[a] (German: [ˈantoːn ˈveːbɐn]ⓘ), was an Austrian composer and conductor. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its concision and steadfast embrace and application of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques in an increasingly rigorous manner, somewhat after the Franco-Flemish School of his studies under Guido Adler. With his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg, Webern was at the core of those within the broader circle of the Second Viennese School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern

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Crucial to our existence, Air is ever-present yet impossible to see. Its energy can cause rapid change such as shifts in the wind’s direction and fluctuations in temperature. Air is essential to life because it contains oxygen, but it also has destructive attributes when storms are created. Wind and turbulence has excited composers over the centuries and inspired them to compose some of the most…

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