# Anton Webern

> He wrote some of the shortest, most compressed pieces in Western music — crystalline miniatures that stripped atonality down to single gestures and silences. Webern's radical economy made him a prophet to the post-war avant-garde, even as his own life ended in an accidental shooting days after the Third Reich fell.

*Austrian composer and conductor*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1883-12-03
- **Died:** 1945-09-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Anton Webern studied under Guido Adler and fell into Arnold Schoenberg's orbit in Vienna, forming with Schoenberg and Alban Berg what became the Second Viennese School. He worked as a choirmaster and conductor — championing Mahler, often stuck programming operettas when he wanted serious repertoire — while writing aphoristic, expressionist scores on love, nature, and mysticism. After World War I he began using twelve-tone technique with growing confidence, but as a "cultural Bolshevist" he was marginalized under Fascism and Nazism, teaching for income and helping Jewish friends escape even as he clung to pan-German hopes that proved hollow. On 15 September 1945, an Allied soldier accidentally shot and killed him. His severe, poetic miniatures became a north star for serialists like Boulez and shaped decades of modernist thought.

## Fame
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