Anton Webern and the Enchantments of Music Theory

Sebastian Wedler (DPhil, Oxford) is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University and author of Anton Webern at the Dawn of Modernism, recently published by Cambridge University Press. His other works include articles and contributed chapters including to Music Analysis, Twentieth-Century Music, The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, The Cambridge Companion to Serialism, and Beethoven in Context (forthcoming). He was elected Prize Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, is the recipient of the ‘Link 2 Future’ Award from the Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich, held scholarships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK and the Paul Sacher Foundation, and has been selected to deliver the 2021 Anton Webern Lecture at the University of Basel. In recognition of his teaching, he was shortlisted for Outstanding Tutor in the Humanities by the Oxford University Student Union.

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