Anton Webern

Anton Webern was born on 3 December 1883 in Vienna. His role as a composer in the early years of this century is generally regarded as a decisive pointer to future development. The brevity and concentration of material influenced not only his contemporaries but the next generation as well. Nonetheless, his enormous regard for the great romantics never waned. He died at Mittersill on 15 September 1945 from a bullet wound, accidentally shot by an American soldier during the post-war Austrian occupation.