Webern

American  

[vay-bern, vay-buhrn] / ˈveɪ bərn, ˈveɪ bərn /

noun

1. Anton von 1883–1945, Austrian composer.

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Webern British  

/ ˈveːbərn /

noun

1. Anton von (ˈantoːn fɔn). 1883–1945, Austrian composer; pupil of Schoenberg, whose twelve-tone technique he adopted. His works include those for chamber ensemble, such as Five Pieces for Orchestra (1911–13)

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Mitropoulos never drew the loyalty from the Philharmonic that he had secured in Minneapolis; the players took advantage of his financial generosity or publicly threw their parts of a Webern work at his feet.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

“Composers such as Webern, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote little points distributed in time,” he writes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

Botstein and James Bagwell will conduct the players in the Orchestra Now, Bard’s pre-professional ensemble that last year delivered stirring performances of Webern and Morton Feldman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

Less than a year after an American soldier in 1945 occupied Vienna accidentally shot and killed Webern as he smoked a cigar on his apartment balcony, the composer’s mentor, Arnold Schoenberg, had a near-death experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

The corps of Generals von Webern and von Conte and the troops of General von Geyl, after a fierce battle, crossed the Crozat Canal.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

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