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Compositions by Anton Webern: Variations for Piano, Concerto, String Quartet

Compositions by Anton Webern: Variations for Piano, Concerto, String Quartet


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Variations for piano, op. 27, is a twelve-tone piece for piano composed by Anton Webern in 1936. It consists of three movements: Webern's only published work for solo piano, the Variations are one of his major instrumental works and a seminal example of his late style. By the early 1930s Webern was one of the composers and artists criticised by the Nazi Party, which was rapidly gaining power. By 1934 Webern's conducting career, a major source of income for the composer, was practically over, and he earned his living by teaching composition to a few private pupils. Despite the considerable disadvantages this financial situation had, the lack of a stable job provided Webern with more time to compose. Opus 27 took Webern about a year to complete. The three movements were not composed in the order they appear in the work: The piece is the only work for piano solo that was published by the composer and assigned an opus number. It was also the last work by Webern to be published by Universal Edition during his lifetime. All three movements of the work are 12-tone pieces based on the following row: Or, in pitch classes: 0 8 7 11 10 9 3 1 4 2 6 5The work's title, Variations, is ambiguous. In a letter dated 18 July, Webern wrote: "The completed part is a variations movement; the whole will be a kind of "Suite"." Only the third movement was completed at the time, and it is clearly a set of variations. The form of the other two movements conforms to the "Suite" plan: the first movement is a ternary form, ABA, and the second is a binary form. However, to refer to an entire work by the form of its last movement is very unusual, and numerous attempts have been made to explain the title. Webern scholar Kathryn Bailey outlined three possib... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26011881


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158297658
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158297653
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Variations for Piano, Concerto, String Quartet
  • Width: 229 mm


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