Ben Weber
Born: 23rd July 1916, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: 16th June 1979, New York, United States
Nationality: American
William Jennings Bryan "Ben" Weber was an American composer.
Weber He was "one of the first Americans to embrace the 12-tone techniques of Schoenberg, starting in 1938"; he was largely self-taught. He worked initially as a copyist and only came to recognition in the 1950s.
Weber used the twelve-tone technique but, rather than avoid tonality, he worked with it and achieved a virtuoso Romantic style: "Weber could not stifle his bent for expansive lyricism and bold gestures," wrote music critic Anthony Tommasini, adding: "One gets the sense that his adaptation of the 12-tone technique was his way of ensuring that his music would keep its cutting edge and not slip into Romanticism.
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- Concertino for flute, oboe, clarinet and string quartet, Op. 45 (2)
- Dolmen. An Elegy (1)
- Episodes, Op. 26a (2)
- Fantasia (Variations) (5)
- Humoreske Op. 49 (1)
- Lyric Piece (1)
- Piano Concerto No. 53 (1)
- Prelude and Passacaglia (1)
- Serenade for Strings, Op. 46 (2)
- Symphony on Poems of William Blake (1)
- The Ways (1)
