Chances are if you have heard of Austrian composer Egon Wellesz at all, it has been through his association with Arnold Schoenberg. Wellesz, the same age as Alban Berg, was one of Schoenberg's earliest students and wrote the first book-length biography of the composer in 1921, a study that both posterity and its subject regarded as something of a classic. Not all of Schoenberg's dealings with Wellesz were as rosy; Wellesz got his first publishing contract with Universal Edition before Berg or Webern, and Schoenberg was ...
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Chances are if you have heard of Austrian composer Egon Wellesz at all, it has been through his association with Arnold Schoenberg. Wellesz, the same age as Alban Berg, was one of Schoenberg's earliest students and wrote the first book-length biography of the composer in 1921, a study that both posterity and its subject regarded as something of a classic. Not all of Schoenberg's dealings with Wellesz were as rosy; Wellesz got his first publishing contract with Universal Edition before Berg or Webern, and Schoenberg was rather miffed that Wellesz simply wouldn't wait his turn. He died in 1974, later than most of Schoenberg's Austrian students, but in posterity's eyes, he has been doing exactly that ever since: waiting his turn. While much of his sizeable output has been recorded, Wellesz's music simply hasn't caught on apart from a short piano piece or two commonly used in teaching. Wellesz settled in England for good with the outbreak of World War II, and it is from England that this Nimbus Records...
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