!!!Gegenwart !!Egon Wellesz: ''Mirabile Mysterium'' op. 101 [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Egon_Wellesz_Mirabile_Mysterium_op_101/140203a.jpg' alt='Egon Wellesz' height='250' caption='Egon Wellesz' width='200'}] His excellent musicological background enabled Egon Wellesz (1885 Vienna - 1974 Oxford), the first Schoenberg biographer, to continue his career in the emigration. Wellesz was a versatile composer, who wrote his radio cantata about Christmas, ''Mirabile Mysterium'' (1967), based on Byzantine hymns. His compositional characteristics are modern harmonies and speech-supporting melodies with the conscious use of archaic elements. In spite of his close relations with [Arnold Schoenberg|Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Arnold_Schönberg_Die_glückliche_Hand/Arnold_Schönberg_Die_glückliche_Hand_english] in his youth (Illustration), he never completely broke with traditional listening habits. This was not at the expense of expressiveness as the musicial example, a short excerpt from ''.und du, Bethlehem'', demonstrates. (M. Saary) !Sound Clip [{Audio src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Egon_Wellesz_Mirabile_Mysterium_op_101/140203am.mp3' caption='Egon Wellesz: Mirabile Mysterium op. 101\\© 1968, Schoenherr-Archiv, Interpreten: Ernst Gutstein, ORF-Chor, ORF-Orchester, Miltiades Caridis (Leitung)'}] [{Metadata Suchbegriff='' Kontrolle='Nein'}] %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Egon_Wellesz_Mirabile_Mysterium_op_101|class='wikipage austrian'] %%