June 2023

Moved! With the help of DaSCH, the AWG database has been migrated from SALSAH to the DaSCH Service Platform (DSP). This is an important step for the long-term availability of the data.

The AWG in the DaSCH Metadata Browser

November 2021

On November 23th, 2021, 6.15 pm, Sebastian Wedler (Oxford) will give the next Anton Webern lecture on the topic "Auf der Suche nach Weberns Frühstil".

Flyer: Webern Lecture Wedler HS 2021
Further information here.

September 2020

Webern-Studien 5 published:

Cover: Webern-Studien 5
Anton Webern, Briefwechsel mit der Universal-Edition, ed. Julia Bungardt, Vienna: Lafite, 2020 (Webern-Studien 5).

April 2020

Update of the AWG edition prototype with dynamic graph visualization of the sketches to Op. 25/I.

AWG Online Edition: Graph

March 2020

Newly published:

Cover: Three Men of Letters
Kathryn Puffett and Barbara Schingnitz, Three Men of Letters. Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, 1906–1921, Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2020.

March 2019

Webern-Studien 4 published:

Cover: Webern-Studien 4
Neue Perspektiven. Anton Webern und das Komponieren im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Pietro Cavallotti, Simon Obert and Rainer Schmusch, Vienna: Lafite, 2019 (Webern-Studien 4).

December 2018

New article published: Thomas Ahrend, Michael Matter: "Webern, Anton" (including work catalogue and bibliography), in: KDG - Komponisten der Gegenwart, 2018. Online available at Munzinger Online.

3. December 2018

Happy Birthday, Webern! On this day 135 years ago, also a Monday, Anton Webern is "delivered by a midwife" in Vienna, III. district, Löwengasse 53a.

November 2018

On November 27th, 2018, Simone Hohmaier will give the next Anton Webern lecture on the topic "The correspondence between Anton Webern and Alban Berg - document of a wondrous friendship" (6.15 p.m., lecture hall of the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Basel).

Flyer: Webern Lecture Hohmaier HS 2018
Further information here.

October 2018

Newly found! Program sheet of Webern's first concert as “Vereinschormeister” of the Mödlinger Männer-Gesang-Verein on November 25, 1921:

Programm: Männer-Gesang-Verein Mödling 1921

The source was discovered in the archive of the Männer-Gesang-Verein (today: Chor Kontroverse) by its current director Andreas Brüger.

März 2018

New Online-article published: Thomas Ahrend, Stefan Münnich: "Anton Webern", in: Oxford Bibliographies in Music (28.3.2018). DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0238.

September 2017

The Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe has assembled the worldwide largest bibliography on Webern with more than 2000 entries available online. It provides a comprehensive overview of the international scholarly engagement with Anton Webern from 1907 to 2017.

Examples of the printed Webern literature

December 2016

Program of February, 8 1910 found in The Karl Weigl Papers at Yale University:

Programm: Verein für Kunst und Kultur Wien 1910

May 2016

Webern-Studien 3 published:

Cover: Webern-Studien 3
Webern-Philologien, ed. Thomas Ahrend and Matthias Schmidt, Vienna: Lafite, 2016 (Webern-Studien 3).

January 2016

Issue of Musiktheorie on Webern and Segantini:

Cover: Musiktheorie 30/4
Anton Webern und Giovanni Segantini, ed. Thomas Ahrend and Matthias Schmidt, Laaber: Laaber, 2015 (Musiktheorie 30/4).