Anton Webern
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Webern was not a prolific composer; just thirty-one of his compositions were published in his lifetime, and when Pierre Boulez oversaw a project to record all of his compositions, including those without opus numbers, the results fit on just six CDs. However, his influence on later composers, and particularly on the post-war avant garde, was immense. His mature works, using Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique, have a textural clarity and emotional coolness which greatly influenced composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Milton Babbitt.
Like almost every composer who had a career of any length, Webern’s music changed over time. However, it is typified by very spartan textures, in which every note can be clearly heard; carefully chosen timbres, often resulting in very detailed instructions to the performers and use of extended instrumental techniques (flutter tonguing, col legno, and so on); wide-ranging melodic lines, often with leaps greater than an octave; and brevity: the Six Bagatelles for string quartet (1913), for instance, last about three minutes in total.
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mahleria
I love Stravinsky's quote on Webern's music.
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poeq
also those string quartets are immaculate. the centerfold of 'atonal' music in my life :D
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poeq
why didn't cage just try to remove his aural nerve or whatever. what a dummy. [2] +1 also yeah this
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nospacesplz
"On Tour"- oh shit! [2]
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stupidstuff
I think it's mostly because he wasnt looking to become deaf.
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BrianSoph
why didn't cage just try to remove his aural nerve or whatever. what a dummy.
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oaquard
"On Tour"- oh shit!
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tim4tw
He's still my favourite gardener.
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trashcity_
The main picture is intense
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RAWWRRRRRR
hahaha oh man
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tim4tw
"In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. Such a chamber is also externally sound-proofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound." so fuck it, there will never be any fucking silence at all. fuck.
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Killer_Artist
Thanks for clearing that up, guys.
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Killer_Artist
not even in the mountains?
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MCXXI
There's no silence at all.
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Killer_Artist
even silence?
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poeq
everything is noise
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Killer_Artist
just sounds like noise
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blackless
Ave, Regina coelorum
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FallingUpwards7
Очаровательно.
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Seavas
A version of the current (deeply touching, utterly appropriate) artist picture without the nasty gif color depth: http://www.last.fm/music/Anton+Webern/+images/71455376
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