Anton Webern (* December 3, 1883 in Vienna; † September 15, 1945 in Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria; full name: Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern; in 1919 he had to give up the "von" due to the Law on the Abolition of the Nobility from 3 April 1919) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He belonged to the inner circle of the Second Viennese School as one of the first students of the Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter Arnold Schönberg, the head of the Second Viennese School.