6 pieces by Webern

[Kevin]

Can anyone enlighten me as to how long this music took to write?

Also any opinions you may have about it




Six Pieces

[djh255]

Sounds like a film score looking for a film.
Interesting to see good old Frank Thornton conducting though!

[Kevin]

Interesting idea about a film score. Doubt he would have written it for that though.

[ceg]

They were "written over the summer of 1909", started no earlier than June, and 3 of them in 10 days between 20th and 30th August, if I've understood the article correctly - www.musictheory21.com/documents/baker-coherence-in-webern-op6.pdf. "The composition of the Six Pieces for Orchestra was rapid and the form they assumed was apparently quite spontaneous". He revised the orchestration in 1928.

[Ed Sharpe]

I enjoyed them.