Anton Webern Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen Op. 2

Anton Webern Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen, for chorus, Op. 2 (1908) Description by Chris Morrison Anton Webern met his mentor Arnold Schoenberg for the first time in the fall of 1904. Webern had only started composing about five years before that and, impressed by Verklärte Nacht and other Schoenberg works, he sought the older musician out and became Schoenberg s first private pupil in Vienna. While working on his dissertation on Heinrich Isaac s Choralis Constantinus, Webern worked on several compo