Variations op. 27, for guitar, Score

ISMN: 979-0-008-08894-0

Edición de / Edited by: Manoukian, Tristan

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