Wellesz

[ vel-es ]

noun

1. E·gon [ey, -gohn], 1885–1974, Austrian musicologist and composer.

Wellesz

/ ˈvɛlɛs /

noun

1. WelleszEgon18851974MBritishAustrianMUSIC: composer Egon (ˈeːɡɔn). 1885–1974, British composer, born in Austria

Example Sentences

Wellesz got out of Vienna in time; he was in Amsterdam when Hitler annexed Austria.

From Los Angeles Times

Ultimately, though, the Wellesz piece didn’t strike me as first-rate music, and once Alban Berg’s sparkling, beautiful “Lyric Suite” got underway, I was sure of it.

From Los Angeles Times

On Thursday night in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Fleming teamed up with the Emerson String Quartet to reprise pieces by Austrian composers Alban Berg and Egon Wellesz they recently recorded for Decca.

From Washington Post

A musicologist and composition student of Arnold Schoenberg, Wellesz composed his “Five Sonnets” for soprano and string quartet in 1934, before the Nazi annexation of Austria forced him to flee to England.

From Washington Post

While she could get away with doing only chestnuts like “O mio babbino caro,” with the quartet she visits a lightly traveled corner of the repertory: Berg’s “Lyric Suite,” Eric Zeisl’s songs and, most intriguingly, Egon Wellesz’s richly fretful settings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning sonnets, translated by Rilke.

From New York Times