Anton Webern in WWII

Anton Webern in WWII

Anton Webern

An Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. Known alongside Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg as a central pillar of the "Second Viennese School". He developed atonality and the twelve-tone technique into extremely condensed forms, establishing a distinctive compositional style that emphasized brief motives, precise timbre distribution, and contrapuntal structures. Following World War II, his works exerted a massive influence on post-war avant-garde composers such as Pierre Boulez, playing a vital role in the development of modern music and serialism.

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Year Anton Webern
1883
Birth of Anton Webern (Period: December 3, 1883, Location: Vienna (Vienna))
1902
Musicology studies at the University of Vienna (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1902–1906, Location: University of Vienna (Vienna))
1904
Studies under Schoenberg (Age: 20 years old, Period: c. 1904–, Location: Vienna)
1908
Completion of "Passacaglia, Op. 1" (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1908, Location: Around Vienna)
Development into atonal music (Age: 24 years old, Period: c. 1908–1914, Location: Vienna)
1911
Premiere of "Passacaglia, Op. 1" (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1911, Location: Danzig)
1914
World War I (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
Suspension of compositional activities due to World War I (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1914–1916, Location: Military-related regions of Austria-Hungary)
1915
Marriage (Anton Webern, Wilhelmine "Minna" Mörtl, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1911 (civil marriage). Formal religious marriage by the Catholic Church took place in 1915, Location: Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland))
1918
Participation in Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances (Age: 34 years old, Period: c. 1918–1921, Location: Vienna)
1922
Full-scale introduction of twelve-tone technique (Age: 38 years old, Period: c. 1922–1925, Location: Vienna and Mödling)
1926
Composition of "String Trio, Op. 20" (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1926–1927, Location: Around Vienna)
1929
International recognition through works like "Symphony, Op. 21" (Age: 45 years old, Period: c. 1929–1930s, Location: New York, London, etc.)
1933
Lectures on "The Path to New Music" (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Vienna)
Activity restrictions during the Nazi era (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1933–1945, Location: Austria and Germany)
1934
Austrian Civil War (Age: 50 years old, Period: February 1934, Location: Vienna and other places in Austria)
1938
Anschluss (annexation of Austria, Age: 54 years old, Period: March 1938, Location: Austria)
1939
World War II (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
1945
Loss of son Peter in the war (Age: 61 years old, Period: February 1945, Location: Around Austria)
Evacuation at the end of World War II (Age: 61 years old, Period: c. April 1945, Location: From Mödling to Mitterndorf)
Death of Anton Webern (Age: 61 years old, Period: September 15, 1945 (aged 61))
Mitterndorf shooting incident (Age: 61 years old, Period: September 15, 1945, Location: Mitterndorf (Salzburg state, Austria))
Death in Mitterndorf (Age: 61 years old, Period: September 15, 1945, Location: Mitterndorf)

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