Six Pieces for Orchestra, op. 6 [score]

Perhaps the most severe of the Second Viennese School of composers, Anton Webern studied musicology but quickly became a follower of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Webern are known as the Vienna Trinity. During Hitler's regime, Webern's music was banned as a manifestation of "cultural Bolshevism" and "degenerate art." After the show more Anschluss in 1938, his works could no longer be published. He died on September 15, 1945, when he was accidentally shot by an American soldier. After his death, Webern's music increasingly influenced modern composers. Jazz composers have claimed the use of his ideas of tone color. His remaining works are practically gossamer in their adherence to the most rigid interpretation of the rules for compositions using 12 tones. (Bowker Author Biography) show less