Webern's Sketches (II)

Abstract

The most extensive selection of plates in the volume (13 in all) is devoted to this work. It was originally conceived as a Concerto for Violin, Clarinet, Horn, Piano and String Orchestra and, like the Concerto op. 24, was inspired by (and presumably during) Webern's walking tours in the Carinthian Alps. This is made clear by his verbal outline of the work (top of plate 12) which reads as follows:—