Webern Variationen op. 27

Nach Alban Berg ist Anton Webern der zweite Komponist der Wiener Schule, der in den Henle-Katalog aufgenommen wird. Weberns Musik ist bekannt für ihre extreme Knappheit und strenge Organisation. Die Aufführung der Variationen op. 27 dauert noch nicht einmal zehn Minuten - eine kurze Zeitspanne, in der die Zuhörer wahre Extreme durchleben. Webern hat das Stück mit mehreren Pianisten einstudiert, und aus dieser Zusammenarbeit sind überraschend emotionale Interpretationshilfen überliefert. Nach Einsichtnahme aller verfügbarer Quellen legt der Herausgeber Ullrich Scheideler nun einen neu überprüften Notentext vor und dokumentiert überdies die verwickelte Entstehungsgeschichte und Weberns aufschlussreiche Hinweise zum Vortrag. Ein Klassiker der Moderne, nun auch in Henle-Blau. / Piano / Chanson En Séparée

It may come as a surprise to learn that Anton Webern's delicate, refined and intimate music can be transferred to the organ. Xavier Durasse (1934-1992), a pupil of Durufle and Messiaen, has produced an organ adaptation of the famous three-movement Variations for piano op. 27 (1936), a groundbreaking composition in serial music. His arrangement is accompanied by judicious registration marks and division of the manuals. The result is fully convincing, making this late work with its chamber-like atmosphere attractive to organists.Durasse's adaptation is now presented to the public for the first time. His pupil Bernhard Haas, an organ professor in Munich, has prefixed his teacher's manuscript with a foreword containing important suggestions regarding the work's performance. / Orgue

Henle Verlag Anton Webern Variations op. 27: for piano, Urtext, edited by Ullrich Scheideler, advanced level of difficulty, ISMN 9790201813448, HN 1344, 23 x 30.5 cm, 20 pages / Henle Verlag

Par WEBERN ANTON. Anton Webern's late instrumental works have always been admired as examples of a systematic, innovative application of twelve-tone technique. From our perspective today, however, the reliance on older models of form and movement-structure, though of course never intended by Webern as a form of 'restoration,' seems equally important. How closely these aspects are interrelated can be seen from the example of the Variations for Piano, Op. 27, which were written in 1935/36. On the one hand, Webern has in this work to a certain extent carried Schoenberg's technique of 'composition with twelve tones related only to one another' to its logical end in that he derived all of the musical themes 'directly' (...) from the abstract sequence of intervals of a basic tone row; for good reason it has been said that the process of variation has itself been made the subject of the composition. On the other hand, in his conception of the work Webern is clearly building on the historical form of the variation. lndeed, it is clear from the sketches and several remarks in his letters that Webern not only understood the third movement (which was composed first) as a series of variations, but also intended to extend this concept of form to the first and second movements composed later. (Ingrid Karlen)/ Répertoire / Guitare

Par WEBERN ANTON. / Répertoire / Piano