Anton Webern - Piano Variations

[schumannlover1]

Webern and Hindemith

,bad music for these convinced

followers of nazi ideology.

[TheEmoSpider]

I don't get it

[thejackshi]

That's the great challenge isn't it? Creating music "like" this using some semi-random algorithm... its possible but extremely hard I think but I think you can approach something like this.

[lancedonahue13]

i thought id look into noise and ambient metal and rock more and i historically tracked back to this form and mostly anton. i love this work so much i can barely blink

[StevenGomezMusic]

is there any twelve tone music that sounds good?

[Nutterbutterz95]

@StevenGomezMusic As a matter of fact, there is. Schoenberg and Skalkottas are two composers that use twelve tone that I consider very, very skilled. Skalkottas is among my favorite composers, up there with Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich. To me, Webern is some strange, academic bullcrap that has no feeling or soul in it. He mastered Schoenberg's twelve tone method and became his best student - yay. Good for him, but it still sounds like shit.

[ptm5150]

@StevenGomezMusic You might like the music of Alban Berg, he and Webern were indeed students of Schoenberg, but the sound of Berg’s music has many tonal-like qualities, which usually makes it a little easier for some to listen to.

p.s. only fool would say that Webern’s music was strange academic crap, thats like saying ‘New Kids on The Block’ is creative and edgy...

[jek21]

@StevenGomezMusic This piece sounds good.

[TCGUITAR]

It's cool, i hear lots of tritones, jazz chords, minimalist.

[txdiversity]

Is this real music? It is hard to assume that this is a traditional music.

[mahler151]

@txdiversity Where is it written anywhere that this is "traditional"?

[NevinJarek]

@mahler151 this is now, it wasnt a tradition when Schoenberg and Webern started it, but after Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen, Babbitt and many others, it has become a tradition and more, because its a school and has been standing and producing for a century.

[hosseinhadisi]

mastery of form!

[lightmyfire90]

this is fucking ugly just because he do rare scales it doent mean that he is good

[jonnda]

Yeah, there is a pleasing way to use odd scales and a displeasing way to use non traditional scales. I believe 12 tone really missed the mark. I am sorry to all the people who for what ever reason listen to this stuff, but that is my opinion.

[mahler151]

Then keep it to yourself, no one wants to hear you critique pieces by long dead composers. You might as well critique Beethoven or Mozart.

[Bagas]

@lightmyfire90 Asshole

[lightmyfire90]

@Bagas hey you can write asshole yeah good for you now you need to practice more to write: "i am an asshole that listen shit music"

[Bagas]

@lightmyfire90 Shit music? Now that's the very definition of asshole.

[lightmyfire90]

@Bagas that´s right this is not music

[hungrylittlepuppy]

Webern is my favorite 20th century composer. Schönberg is good too though.  Beautiful stuff.

[mar4tin123]

I really dont like this music, just piano :) but that is what i think. hope you like this....

[eoghdes18]

Oh my god.

This is Beautiful! The last few bars are sheer genius. No random generator could create this, at least without external influences.

[Vinny72]

amazingly detailed piece. once you look into it its not random AT all. scarily good.

[00eddie0]

the first time i heard this kind of music i thought to myself "Hey! I could do this easy!" i never realized this isnt just random banging on a piano until i really started getting into the music

[jonnda]

It may not be entirely random, but if you do randomly bang on the piano few people would be able to tell the difference.

[harfarhs]

@jonnda - it is the measure of musical education that afterwards, people *can* tell the difference.

[jonnda]

I personally don't think it was worth it to know the difference. In the end it still sounds the same to me, even after I've analyzed it.

[ThexBloodyxMary]

@00eddie0

Exactly!

[vitovito1234]

what a composition!!!

[doctorgsja]

LOL! Thank you for your comments - your ignorance is hilarious!!

[MonalisaNat]

ha ha I know! lol :)

This is from the pointillism movement. This is what you call point music.

[oscardoodles]

@doctorgsja Oooh get you Dr Highbrow,wanker.

[laurion69]

Mine too!

[BenMcCormack91]

I don't like a lot of atonal music, but I do like how close some of it comes to melodic sounds... it just makes you feel like a tonal piece is there, under the surface, be it imagination or not... It's interesting stuff, when written by interesting composers. Webern, Schonberg, and Berg are the only three who really interest me...

It's sad how young he died. Went out for a stroll after curfew...

[mooki57]

webern, schonberg and berg are pretty much the only three

[klemank]

@BenMcCormack91 there are melodies in this, it just isn't in any specific key.

[BenMcCormack91]

@klemank I know.  I think I said that. Or I might not have. My comment is pretty damned loopy as far as syntax goes...

[mrbeautiful999]

Astoundingly beatiful.

Thank you.