The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

Webern’s music was revolutionary, but did not become widely accessible until Craft directed this series of recordings In the decades after the second world war it was the music of Anton Webern, rather ...

“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

On Thursday 15 September, BBC Radio 3 presents Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer's dramatic death. His complete works - about five and a half hours in total - will be ...

Here's to avant-garde jazz. Unruly and ill-behaved, the seeds planted by saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, and carried forward by reed multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton and melded ...

Long before developing his distinctively sparse, crystalline approach to Schoenberg’s 12-tone technique, Anton Webern was an up-and-comer writing in a late Romantic style whose expressive lushness ...

Australian composer Brett Dean curates his second Metropolis this year, presenting a four-part series that champions the streams of modernism that flowed from the Second Viennese School. It also ...

A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not too surprising that the somewhat mathematically-minded alto saxophonist John Gallagher should be drawn to ...