Anton Webern

Anton Webern was an Austrian composer associated with the Second Viennese School and a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. His music is marked by extreme concision and aphoristic forms, with precise, pointillistic textures that explore atonality and twelve tone technique while placing close attention on timbre and silence. Webern's economy of means and focus on sound color had a notable impact on later developments in serial and modernist composition.