Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. - Anton Webern
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
- Anton Webern
So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind… - Anton Webern
So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind…
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vess… - Anton Webern
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vess…
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. - Anton Webern
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be ov… - Anton Webern
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be ov…
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. - Anton Webern
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing. - Anton Webern
Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and si… - Anton Webern
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and si…
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. - Anton Webern
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
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