Kinderstuck

Short piano piece composed in 1924, written as a gift for Webern's daughter Amalie and published posthumously. A rare example of Webern writing a simple, diatonic piece in a late tonal language: the Kinderstuck has none of the systematic twelve-tone or atonal rigour of his published works and reads more like a short, intimate character piece in the tradition of Schubert or Brahms. It offers a window into a private, domestic side of Webern's musical personality that is entirely absent from his published opus.