Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (Known as "Webern")

Composer, Conductor, Master of Aphoristic 12-Tone Serialism, Second Viennese School

Born 1883-12-03

Vienna, Austria

Passed Away 1945-09-15 Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria

Lifespan 61 years old

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"To express a novel in a single gesture, a joy in a single breath: such concentration can only be found where measure is supreme."

Archival Overview

Foundational master of the Second Viennese School whose crystalline, ultra-condensed twelve-tone serialist compositions profoundly shaped post-war European avant-garde music (Boulez, Stockhausen).

Biographical Record

Anton Webern was born on December 3, 1883, in Vienna into an aristocratic Austrian family. Studying musicology at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler and composition as one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest disciples, Webern stripped musical texture of Romantic excess, condensing profound structural drama into brief, aphoristic gestures.

His works, such as the Six Bagatelles for String Quartet (1913) and Symphonie, Op. 21 (1928), transformed timbre into melody (Klangfarbenmelodie) and explored pure pointillist serialism. Silenced and banned by the Nazi regime as 'degenerate art', Webern was tragically and mistakenly shot dead in Mittersill by an American soldier in September 1945.

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Mittersill Parish Cemetery
Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria

                         GPS: 47.2800, 12.4800                    

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