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Achievements • In grad school! WAO Anime Fan Since • Early '90s. Favorite Anime • Musashi Gundoh. Goals • A university teaching gig! Hobbies • Reading Heidegger. Talents • Not really.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Webern - Variations for Piano
You can tell why Gould likes this piece. :)
The more I listen to Webern and the more I read stuff about and by him, the more I'm convinced that this guy was in many ways THE 20th century composer. Everything by him is so TERSE, so compact and even soft-spoken. And good god, the effort he would put into just ORGANIZING a piece that would last like five minutes.
There are many people (I should know, I was one of them) who say that no matter how well the piece is constructed, it doesn't matter if it doesn't come out when you hear it - and that this is the case with 12-tone music like Webern's. I would agree, except that you CAN actually hear it if you put the effort in (good luck getting it on the first listen, though).
