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Name one performance style of Anton Webern.
Anton Webern insisted on lyricism, nuance, rubato, sensitivity, and both emotional and intellectual understanding in performance of music. This is evident by anecdotes, correspondence, extant recordings of Schubert's Deutsche Tänze.
Who inspired Anton Webern's work?
The young Anton Webern was enthusiastic about the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Wagner, visiting Bayreuth in 1902.
Where is Anton Webern from?
Anton Webern was born in Vienna, then Austria-Hungary, as Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern.
Was Anton Webern a composer?
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor.
Did Anton Webern's work go unnoticed at any time?
Anton Webern's music and others was denounced as cultural Bolshevism and degenerate art by the Nazi Party in Germany, and both publication and performances of it were banned around 1933.
Did Anton Webern have anybody who helped him?
Anton Webern studied musicology with Guido Adler, writing his thesis on the Choralis Constantinus of Heinrich Isaac.
Did Anton Webern have anybody who did similar work to his?
For a number of years, Anton Webern wrote pieces which were freely atonal, much in the style of Schoenberg's early atonal works.

Question: Did they criticize his work?
Self-contained rewrite: Did they criticize Anton Webern's work?