Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz {Slow Movement}

- Composer: Anton Webern (3 December 1883 -- 15 September 1945) - Performers: Emerson String Quartet - Year of recording: 1992 Langsamer Satz {Slow Movement} for string quartet, written in 1905. One movement: Langsam, mit bewegtem Ausdruck Webern composed this work for string quartet in June 1905, but it wasn’t publicly performed until 27 May 1962, in Seattle (Washington, USA) by the University of Washington String Quartet. The Langsamer Satz (literally “Slow Movement“) originated during a hiking trip in Lower Austria that Webern took with his cousin, Wilhelmine Mörtl, who later became his wife. It is love music, as Webern diarized ecstatically -- an outpouring by the 21-year-old composer, whose studies with Arnold Schoenberg had begun the previous autumn. “To walk forever like this among the flowers, with my dearest one beside me, to feel oneself so entirely at one with the Universe, without care, free as the lark in the sky above -- Oh what splendor.