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Webern's Sketches (II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Roger Smalley
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The most extensive selection of plates in the volume (13 in all) is devoted to this work. It was originally conceived as a Concerto for Violin, Clarinet, Horn, Piano and String Orchestra and, like the Concerto op. 24, was inspired by (and presumably during) Webern's walking tours in the Carinthian Alps. This is made clear by his verbal outline of the work (top of plate 12) which reads as follows:—

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Tempo , Issue 113 , June 1975 , pp. 29 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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NOTES

16. i.e. as well as the String Trio op.20 and the Symphony op.21, for both of which Webern had begun a third movement.

17. Webern's diary, 10 December 1930. Quoted in Wildgans, , Friedrich, : Anton Webern. Calder and Boyars, London 1966, p. 139 Google Scholar.

18. The following material has been slightly rearranged in order to give a clearer impression of the probable sequence of events. Anninger and Dachstein are mountains in the Austrian Alps. See also Part I of this article, (TEMPO 112) page 11, paragraph 3.

19. Wildgans, , op. cit., p. 118 Google Scholar.

20. Perle, , George, : Serial Composition and Atonality. 2nd (revised) edition, Faber and Faber, London 1968, p. 80 (Example 113)Google Scholar.

21. Kolneder, , Walter, : Anton Webern. Faber and Faber, London 1968, p. 120 Google Scholar.

22. The following 3 paragraphs were added in 1975.

23. Perle, , George, : ‘Webern's Twelve-Tone Sketches’ The Musical Quarterly, Vol. LVII, No. 1, 01 1971, pp. 1–25 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

24. Perle, , op. cit., p. 20 Google Scholar.

25. cf. Perle p.20: ‘Why Webern should have discontinued the projected additional movement after the promising beginnings that are found in the sketchbook remains a mystery. There is no question of a technical cul-de-sac, as in the projected third movement of the Symphony, and he does not appear to have been distracted by the conception of another work, for he makes no use of the sketchbook again until four months later’.