Anton Webern

Anton Webern ( German: [ˈantoːn ˈveːbɐn] ; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical , poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques. His approach was typically rigorous, inspired by his studies of the Franco-Flemish School under Guido Adler and by Arnold Schoenberg 's emphasis on structure in teaching composition from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach , the First Viennese School , and Johannes Brahms . Webern, Schoenberg, and their colleague Alban Berg were at the core of what became known as the Second Viennese School .

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