Webern Langsamer Satz
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meraviglioso...
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Its amusing that so many people who comment on YouTube choose call any music, whether sung or not, a "song". I wonder why?
Anyway, this is a fine post-romantic work. For the record, Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) dates from 1905 Webern intended to write an entire quartet but put it aside after completing this one movement.
Schoenberg was among Webern's teachers, and this work reminds me of a similar, also tonal work by Shoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (or Transfigured Night).
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I really enjoy this song. We are playing it for All-City this year. It is so hard to play! I love how Webern wrote this song for his cousin, whom he fell in love with a church camp. :)
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Almost sounds like Tchaikovsky in spots...
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@franzliszt370 An excellent point, if I may say so. Webern has a lot in common with Mozart, particularly in the fact that both men were lyrical, primarily vocal composers. You can hear this even in their instrumental music, as here.
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I just listened to this because I am expected to perform it in a month. I've always seen the names Berg, Shoenberg and Webern and avoided them because of the dreadful stuff we had to study... but this is quite lovely!
I look forward to meeting the other players and re-creating it.
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No, it's Anton Webern's Langsamer Satz. The opening is strongly reminiscent of the beginning of Beethoven's quartet No. 4, Op. 18, but the rest is quite different.
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rofl
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It's sound like beethovenian strings quartet,is it?



It's amazing to hear how accessible Webern truly is - and not just in this beautiful quartet. Stuff like the Piano Variations always gets me both intellectually *and* emotionally. The modernist answer to Mozart, I would say.
franzliszt370 3 years ago 5
I can't get enough of Webern as a serial composer, but his tonal music was so good. He easilly could have been just as famous without composing with Schoenberg's methods.
ruitye75ir94444 3 years ago 5