We had a thread on this in April 2000. See the 36 messages at: [The thread actually started at the end of the month before. Here's the first article in the thread with the title "Op. 1": http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0003&L=classical&D=0&F=P&P=103547&F= -Dave] Webern's Passacaglia gets broadcast and performed enough in Britain to count as 'main repertoire' here. Like Berg's sonata, it was a 'graduation piece' coming at the end of his studies with Schoenberg. Virginia Knight [log in to unmask]