Webern's Atonal Recall; Boulez Sets Record Straight on Composer From: The Washington Post | Date: June 11, 2000| Author: Philip Kennicott | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Fifty-five years ago this September, the Austrian composer Anton von Webern stepped into the autumn night outside the little town of Mittersill, Austria, and lit a cigar. No one knows quite what happened next, but he found himself on the wrong end of a GI's gun, and a few hours later he was dead.

It was a death that conductor Pierre Boulez, whose second complete edition of the works of Webern has just been released on Deutsche Grammophon, called "absurd" in a breathlessly adulatory art...

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