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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.