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Journey into outer space: a trip to Asteroid 4529 "Webern"

Breaking Free: The World of the Second Viennese School in 5 Objects
Asteroid 4529 ‘Webern’

Tom McKinney tracks down three asteroids that mark the achievements of the Second Viennese School, visiting the Institut fur Astronomie at the University of Vienna, and explores the idea of a new musical universe that was so central to Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.

(Asteroid Webern) Image courtesy of Mattia Galiazzo of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Vienna

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