![]() ![]() (Rilke and Trakl were also among Wellesz’ favored poets – he set texts by both.) He was born in Vienna, and hearing Mahler conduct Weber’s opera Der Freischütz set him on the road to composing. ![]() “He was one of the last musicians of a great tradition – a great Austrian and fully aware of this spiritual inheritance, like Rainer Maria Rilke and like his favorite poet, Georg Trakl.” Egon Wellesz wrote those words in 1966 about Anton Webern, but he might have been describing himself, particularly the part about being aware of the spiritual inheritance of the Austrian tradition. Interludes appear when suggested by the content, for example, not the form. Wellesz did not find a single musical shape to mirror the structure of the sonnets.
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