Word: webern
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...studying at the academy with one of the great teachers of the 20th century, Hans Swarowsky. The Vienna Philharmonic opened my ears and Swarowsky opened my mind to the treasures of the Viennese classics. To this day, the huge musical arc that starts with Haydn and goes to Webern constitutes 80% of my repertoire...
...next played Anton Webern's Vier Stcke, op. 7, a work the composer wrote in 1910 under the influence of his teacher, Schoenberg. These pieces reveal how quickly Webern embraced his teacher's concept of a completely atonal music, which had only fully materialized a year earlier with Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11. Webern's pieces, however, already point to a more abstract atonality and are characteristically Webernesque in their brevity and obsession with detail. Schulte and Winn played the faster movements especially well, again showing a real sense of musical unity...