Anton Webern: 5 Movements, Op.5

Originally for string quartet (1909). This is the version for string orchestra (1929).

The five movements are : Heftig bewegt; Sehr langsam; Sehr lebhaft; Sehr langsam; In zarter Bewegung.

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Music

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• 20th century classics
• second viennese school
• schoenberg
• atonality
• 12tone
• anton webern
• five movements
• op.5
• string orchestra
• string quartet
• chamber music

[TheRealmsOfGold]

WOW. I'm kind of blown away. I never liked Webern before (not because I'm turned off by dissonance—I'm actually a composition grad student), but because I always found his stuff cold and impersonal. I always much preferred Schoenberg and Berg. But this set of pieces really turns things around for me! They're exciting, dynamic, and dramatic, with some really great phrases of development. I will definitely have to look deeper into his stuff now! Thanks for posting this :-)

[lorenzarthur91]

It is indeed a great piece, but sorry, it's not dodecaphonic. The twelve - tone - technic was invented by Schoenberg in 1923, Webern used it the first time in his "Drei Geistliche Volkslieder" in 1925.

[Schizopantheist]

@TheRealmsOfGold Thats funny i feel the same about Schoenberg as you felt about Webern. His (Webern's) best pieces seem to me extremely emotional. He has some very good piano pieces (see the Gould renditions), after this perhaps you can sense the feeling in them. Its not -only- my opinion that Webern isnt simply a cold maker of musical palindromes. He once admitted the effect that the death of his mother had on his music.

[TheDirtSanchezz]

@flammesombres Now I am.

[flammesombres]

is anyone else immensely enjoying the fact that Boulez broke up this young man's dorm-room party at Juilliard?

[TheRealmsOfGold]

@CaptainBluebear08 and caiogbarros: Thanks, both of you—when I'm done listening to A-Ha's "Take On Me," I may very well head over and check that recording out. I absolutely hate Boulez. He's a genius, and I have the utmost respect for his work, but his attitude is so unfathomably repulsive. I get the feeling that he just hates everybody. He even broke up a party a friend of mine was holding in his dorm at Juilliard. Boo.

[caiogbarros]

@TheRealmsOfGold I think that most of this feeling come from some interpretations by Boulez (most of us only know those). If you can, listen Robert Craft conducting Webern's Symphony op. 21 (especially the second movement). You'll hear a Webern that most of us don't know. It should be easy and cheap to find since this recording is released by naxos

[thorellyk]

Sounds like Robert Kraft's Columbia recording.

[nlenchner]

Great piece, what recording is this?

[Norbeone]

This isn't a 12-tone piece, but yep, it's amazing :)

[georgtbn]

@scarsunseen24 It's not a 12-tone piece.......