monz on Webern (was: Kyle on Bartok)

hi Kyle,

> From: "Kyle Gann" <kgann@earthlink.net>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:22 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Kyle on Bartok
>
>
> > Oh, BTW: "the best I can say for [Webern] is, he was an awfully good
> > composer for a musicologist." You mean like Bartok?
>
> Bartok, like myself, was a composer who became a musicologist. Webern
> was a musicologist who took up composing.

i have to assume that you're stretching the truth a bit
to make a point. it's documented quite well in Moldenhauer's
big biography of Webern that he began composing in 1899
at the age of 15, several years before he entered the
University of Vienna and began his studies in musicology
with Guido Adler.

-monz