Passacaglia (Webern)

1 is a 1908 musical composition by Anton Webern.

[2] It was also the last that Webern composed under the supervision of his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg.

[3] Webern suggested that the work was related to the death of his mother, who had died in 1906.

[4] The work is scored for an orchestra of: two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (cymbals, bass drum, triangle, tam-tam), harp, and strings.

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