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"Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother."
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Anton WebernWebern attracts me, though theres a lot that I dont understand. His mu — Anton Webern
"Webern attracts me, though theres a lot that I dont understand. His music is a combination of purity, complexity and abstraction in the very best sense of the term."
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Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques. His approach was typically rigorous, inspired by his studies of the Franco-Flemish School under Guido Adler and by Arnold Schoenberg's emphasis on structure in teaching composition
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"Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing."
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"Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."
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"[the impression of the first time I heard Weberns music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality"
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