Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twel
Webern in Stettin, October 1912
Brick barn in a field of wildflowers on the Preglhof estate
Pfarrkirche Schwabegg [de] and southern foothills across from a snowy field
Spring Pastures, 1896, by Giovanni Segantini
Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small
Anton Webern
…teaching composition from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the First Viennese School, and Johannes Brahms. Webern, Schoenberg, and their colleague Alban Berg were at the core of what became known as the Second Viennese School. Webern was likely the first and certainly the last of the three to write music in…
Watschenkonzert [slapping concert], caricature in Die Zeit [de] (Vienna), 6 April 1913
Sketch of Berg by Emil Stumpp
Bust of Berg at Schiefling am See, Carinthia, Austria