webern in English
noun
Anton von Webern (1883-1945), Austrian composer and conductor, student of Schoenberg who adopted the 12-tone style in his compositions
Use "webern" in a sentence
1. Webern 's Six Bagatelles for string quartet, Op
2. Outside, the crickets chirped monotonously, with a Webern-like inconsistency yet precision of rhythm.
3. The Romanian composer and Webern disciple Philip Gershkovich called Shostakovich "a hack in a trance".
4. Eliot's Waste Land (19; the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque; and the 12-note music of Webern and Schoenberg.
5. Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music.
6. It understands movements such as modernism, Anthropophagism or concrete poetry marked by a tension between the fascination for new artistic procedures provided by impulses from cubism, surrealism or the concept of “melody of timbres” by Anton Webern and the