Webern's Lost Cello Sonata and Music in the Aphoristic Style

This book offers a music-analytical and historical exploration of the 'aphoristic style'; small yet strident modernist works written by the Second Viennese School between 1909 and 1914, challenging long-held misconceptions about early twentieth-century atonal music.Lal establishes the nature and chronology of the aphoristic corpus, exploring the matter of modernist 'priority' particularly importan...