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| | Decca Music Group - Composers |
 | | Berg, a merchant's son, studied the piano from childhood on and began to compose when he was in his teens, but at the age of 19 he took a job as a bookkeeper. | | | Berg later arranged the second, third and fourth movements for string orchestra, and in that form they were first performed in Berlin on 31 January 1929, with Jascha Horenstein conducting, and are heard in the present recording. | | | Berg usually composed slowly, but in this case he worked so quickly, to create a memorial for the dead girl (the concerto is dedicated "to the memory of an angel"), that the complex masterpiece was fully sketched out by July and completed on 11 August. |
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| | Alban Berg |
| | Something of its threnodic sensuality is continued in the Violin Concerto, designed as a memorial to the teenage daughter of Mahler's widow. | | | The development of Lulu was twice interrupted by commissioned works, the concert aria Der Wein on poems by Baudelaire (1929) and the Violin Concerto (1935), and it remained unfinished at Berg's death: his widow placed an embargo on the incomplete third act which could not be published or performed until 1979. | | | His next work, the Chamber Concerto for violin, piano and 13 wind (1925), moves decisively towards a more classical style: its three formally complex movements are still more clearly shaped than those of the op.6 set and the scoring suggests a response to Stravinskian objectivity. |
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| | Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935) |
| | Berg's Violin Concerto and Chamber Concerto are an important part of 20th century repertoire. | | | Schoenberg's pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern, each with an individual musical language, put into practice the general principles of atonality, music without tonality or key-centre, and twelve-note music or serialism, music based on a series of the twelve semitones or half-steps of the modern scale. | | | His Lyric Suite, for string quartet, was later orchestrated in part, while the delicately orchestrated Three Pieces of 1914-1915 form an occasional part of modern concert repertoire. |
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| | Alban Berg |
| | Berg was a student of Arnold Schoenberg beginning in 1904, and up to that point, he had written songs, but had no musical education. | | | Berg showed quite a bit of influence from composers such as Debussy and Mahler. | | | His Violin Concerto was written as a memorial for Mahler's teenage daughter. |
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| | allmusic ((( Alban Berg > Biography ))) |
| | The Lyric Suite remains one of the composer's most often performed works; George Gershwin, it is said, had a particular admiration for this music. | | | In 1925 and 1926, Berg wrote the Lyric Suite for string quartet, parts of which systematically employ 12-tone principles. | | | The Violin Concerto (1935) is dedicated "to the Memory of an Angel," a reference to the daughter of Alma Mahler (a close ally) and Walter Gropius, Manon, who had died at the age of 19. |
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| | SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Alban Berg |
| | Combining the music of Mahler and Alban Berg with that of Ives and Copland for this particular concert was an inspired stroke of programming, since the Phil of Mitropoulos and Bernstein spearheaded the great Mahler emergence, Bernstein was intimately involved with the art of Copland, and Mitropoulos... | | | Listening to her sing early songs of Alban Berg in the second half of the program felt a bit like hearing a solid citizen of Baltimore or Boston recount the dark night of the soul he had for a couple of weeks while on vacation in Germany. | | | In the music of Alban Berg and, in particular, the prologue to his opera Lulu, the progression from speech, through speech-melody (Sprechgesang) to singing, and back again becomes an essential part of the structure. |
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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Alban Berg |
| | Once part of Schoenberg's circle --- commonly referred to as the "Second Viennese School," of which Webern was the other major figure --- Berg was called upon to work as copyist and manager of his master's works, which led to compositions of direct emulation and, only later, pieces of sheer originality. | | | In both cases, Berg sought out sources that would require major dramaturgical revision, compression, even completion; accordingly, his own musical structures blend brilliantly with narrative progression in the finished products. | | | In place of Bach's V-I cadence, Schoenberg fashioned sequences of sound in repetition and quotation, inversion and retrograde inversion --- deeply theoretical structures only perceived by the most trained ear. |
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| | Alban Berg - Complete Chamber Music [TH]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2002 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Adagio (1923-25) from Chamber Concerto, arranged for violin, clarinet and piano by Alban Berg (1935) | | | There is no doubting the Berg’s intensity and sheer high-powered virtuosity in these difficult pieces, and the Schoenbergs are only partially successful in conveying the overheated emotion that runs throughout many passages. | | | Hier ist Friede Op.4 (1912) arranged for piano, harmonium, violin and cello by Alban Berg (1917) |
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | BERG / EISLER / SCHOENBERG / RAVEL: Early Piano Music | | | The technical compositional systems developed by Schoenberg, a logical extension of Wagnerian chromaticism, had a profound effect on the course of music throughout the century, as traditional tonalities and keys were seemingly abandoned, dissonances differently handled and principles of musical unity developed into a very different language. | | | BERG, A.: Violin Concerto / Lyric Suite / 3 Orchestral Pieces |
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| | Berg, Alban -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | He recorded the music of composers such as Johann C. Bach and Alban Berg, toured widely, and for a time, conducted. | | | From the mid-17th century, the violin has been the foundation of the symphony orchestra—modern orchestras usually include 20 or more violins. | | | Ukrainian-born U.S. violinist and music teacher who was best remembered for having commissioned Alban Berg to write his 1934 Violin Concerto (b. |
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| | Erik's Rants and Recipes: Speaking of Birthdays... |
| | Berg is one of those composers who changes the way one listens to earlier music. | | | I hear Phil Glass and I desperately want to hear Berg, just to get that drivel out of my ears. | | | Wozzeck and Porgy and Bess have been the two operas that have stopped me in my tracks and made me listen without the slightest mind wandering from beginning to end. |
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| | Classical Music : Alban Berg |
| | Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto for piano, violin with 13 wind instruments; Piano Sonata Op. | | | by: Alban Berg, Marie-Josephe Jude (piano), Peter Csaba (violin) | | | by: Cornelia Kallisch, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Claude Debussy, Morton Feldman, Beat Furrer, Philip Glass |
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| | The Ensemble Sospeso - Alban Berg |
| | Sospeso performs songs by Alban Berg at the Sospeso Cabaret at studioseven on April 16, 2005. | | | His ‘free’ music has been revealed as at least as systematic as — and, in some ways, more systematic than — that of his colleagues and contemporaries, involving methods of organizing pitch, metre, rhythm and proportion that seem strikingly relevant to what has happened in music since his death. | | | That such innovative and apparently ‘abstract’ organizational procedures take place within, and indeed give rise to, an intensely expressive music invoking the emotional world of Tristan, Mahler and the late Romantics is one of the many paradoxes that underlie Berg's music. |
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| | Wozzeck - Alban Berg's Masterful Operatic |
| | Both the singing and the orchestral music used to accompany it leave the impression that everyone in Wozzeck is in a state of taut expectation. | | | Wozzeck's "funeral music" (also in D minor/major), which is heard in the interlude before the final scene, draws upon sketches that a youthful Berg, perhaps then at his most Mahlerian, once intended for a symphony. | | | Following a request by conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt to imagine a version of Wozzeck for the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and after a study of Berg's orchestral score, I concluded that no fewer than 21 musicians were required to render the music vital and irresistible. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Alban Berg: "Wozzeck" (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) |
| | The book introduces you to Berg's life and the situation in Vienna around the time of the opera's composition and spends some time discussing the original play on which "Wozzeck" was based, all of which set me in the right mind-frame to listen to the opera. | | | So I bought a CD of Berg's "Wozzeck" and tried listening to it. | | | This book goes into much more detail and the analysis is quite impressive, but requires an extensive musical background to understand all the intricacies of the form. |
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Alban Berg - Wozzeck / Adolf Dresen · Claudio Abbado - F. Grundheber · H. Behrens · Vienna State ... |
| | Berg casts the music in various established late Romantic idioms, such as the Theme and Variations or Symphony form, such that the drama almost seems to be a 'second layer' growing on top of the music--even so, the two mate perfectly. | | | Alban Berg's scalpel-like dissection of human baseness is compellingly captured in a 1987 Vienna State Opera production that emphasizes its often- overlooked lyricism. | | | Based on George Buchner's play about a soldier's mad descent into murder, Berg fashioned a fast-moving exploration of both his protagonist's life and his own 12-tone music, utilized expressively throughout. |
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| | andante boutique - alban berg - wozzeck |
| | Alban Berg, Wozzeck: Act 3:Scene 1 :"Und ist kein Betrug in seinem Munde erfunden worden" (Marie) Verwandlung (Orchester): Karl Böhm, Walter Berry, Max Lorenz, Murray Dickie, Peter Klein, Karl Dönch, Harald Pröglhof, Marjan Rus, William Wernigk, Cristel Goltz, Polly Batic, Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, 1955 | | | Alban Berg, Wozzeck: Act 2:Scene 1 :"Was die steine glänzen !" (Marie, Wozzeck): Karl Böhm, Walter Berry, Max Lorenz, Murray Dickie, Peter Klein, Karl Dönch, Harald Pröglhof, Marjan Rus, William Wernigk, Cristel Goltz, Polly Batic, Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, 1955 | | | Alban Berg, Wozzeck: Act 1:Scene 1 :"Langsam, Wozzeck, langsam!" (Hauptmann, Wozzeck): Karl Böhm, Walter Berry, Max Lorenz, Murray Dickie, Peter Klein, Karl Dönch, Harald Pröglhof, Marjan Rus, William Wernigk, Cristel Goltz, Polly Batic, Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, 1955 |
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| | Alban Berg Quartett |
| | Following their original Beethoven cycle recorded in the studio some years ago, the live recording of their Beethoven cycle at the Konzerhaus during the Vienna Festival in 1989 has been released on CD and video. | | | For over thirty 30 years the Alban Berg Quartett has performed regularly in music capitals and major festivals throughout the world. | | | The quartet has also made live recordings of works by Janacek, Lutoslawski, Berio, Schnittke, Urbanner and Rihm (most of which are dedicated to the Alban Berg Quartett), as well as the Dvorak Piano Quintet (with Rudolf Buchbinder), Schubert& late Quartets, Brahm’s Clarinet Quintet (with S. Meyer) and String Quintet op. |
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| | The Alban Berg Link Page on Classic Cat |
| | Alban Berg resources for all - Devoted to popularizing the music of the 20th century Viennese composer. | | | Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935), Austria - Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. | | | Subscribe for music downloads to EMusic or Napster |
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| | Alban Berg Shopping Online |
| | By: Alban Berg, Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Saschko Gawriloff | | | By: Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Paul Watkins, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Hope | | | By: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Arleen Auger |
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| | Alban Berg |
| | Love, death and music.(Entertainment)(There's quite a full story behind Alban Berg's Violin Concerto) (The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)) | | | Style and Idea in the 'Lyric Suite' of Alban Berg.(Review) (Notes) | | | Alban Berg Quartet tops classic event (Jerusalem Post) |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Alban Berg |
| | Find the music of Alban Berg in the Archives. | | | From the Lyric Suite onwards, Berg used 12-note procedures nearer to, but still significantly different from, the Schoenberg method. | | | Berg has become, to the general public, the most acceptable of the so-called ‘12-note’ or ‘dodecaphonic’ composers, probably because he never was an orthodox atonalist. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Alban Berg: A Guide to Research |
| | A final chapter deals with studies of Berg's life, cultural milieu, and general musical surveys. | | | It is followed by a comprehensive, annotated list of Berg's published music and writings. | | | Over 1,000 writings on Berg, dating from 1911 to the present, are cited and analyzed. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Alban Berg |
| | Berg, Alban (1885-1935), Austrian composer, whose music represents a flexible, emotionally intense use of the twelve-tone system of composition. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Alban Berg (1885-1935) |
| | He is known for the operas Wozzeck and Lulu and the Chamber Concerto for violin&; piano and 13 wind instruments. | | | Please browse our Amazon list of music titles about Alban Berg. | | | The composer Alban Berg (February 9, 1885&; Vienna&; Austria - December 24, 1935&; Vienna) continued as a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg the development of the atonal music. |
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| | Alban Berg (1885-1935) |
| | As a natural consequence, Berg's works are considered to be easier to listen to compared to the other two composers'. | | | Symphonic Music : Three pieces for orchestra, Concert for violin. | | | Berg is one of the pioneer composers that used to a large extent at his works the art of twelve-tone composition, influenced in an immediately way by Schoenberg, whose had existed student of (as also had existed Webern). |
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| | Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935), Komponist (Composer) |
| | Wenn man sich ein kleines PlugIn installiert, kann man nicht nur eine Notenvorschau ansehen und ausdrucken(!), sondern sich die Stücke auch anhören. | | | Hier finden Sie ausgewählte CD's und Bücher von/über Alban Berg | | | 6, Kammerkonzert (für Klavier, Violine und 13 Holzbläser), Lyrische Suite für Streichquartett, Konzertarie: 'Der Wein', 1 Violinkonzert, geschrieben für den amerikanischen Geiger LOUIS KRASSNER, Berg kombiniert im Schlußsatz den BACHschen Choral: 'Es ist genug' mit der dem Werk zugrundegelegten Reihe... |
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| | Schoenberg: Cabaret Songs; Berg: Lieder; Webern: Seven Early Songs | | | Media: Audio CD Availibility: we are currently unable to offer this title. | | | Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Willy Goudswaard, Rudolf Jansen, Tan Crone, Rien de Reede, Dorothy Dorow, Peter Masseurs |
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| | ArkivMusic Brahms, Dvorak: String Quartets / Alban Berg Quartet |
| | "The analogue Teldec Alban Berg performances were made in the mid-1970s when the quartet was on peak form, highly polished yet completely fresh in their musical responses. | | | Below is a recommendation from ArkivMusic which was not on the Playlist, but which we think comes closest to what you heard on WGUC. | | | This set is strongly recommended and can stand alongside the best in the catalog..." - PENGUIN GUIDE 2003/4 Edition |
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| | Reviews - Alban Berg - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD |
| | Be sure to bookmark www.classicstoday.com for convenient access to everything you need to know about classical music recordings. | | | Reviews - Alban Berg - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD | | | Welcome to Our Digest of Classical CD Reviews, SACD Reviews, and DVD Reviews. |
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| | Academic Directory on Berg, Alban |
| | This site contains the entire text (divided into.pdf files) of Melissa Goldsmith's Ph.D. dissertation on the film music in Berg's opera Lulu (Louisiana State University, 2002). | | | This page from Stephen Hilyard of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, contains a very brief biographical sketch plus a sound clip from the composer& Violin Concerto. | | | From Emory University's 20th-Century Music site, created by Ben Arnold, this page offers a brief overview of Berg's life, works, and compositional style. |
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| | Schoenberg voice recording: Alban Berg (1st speech) |
| | Alban Berg: the man and his music, pp. | | | But when I saw the compositions he showed me--songs in a style between Hugo Wolf and Brahms--I recognized at once that he was a real talent. | | | Because Berg, this timid man, was a strong character who was faithful to his ideas, just as he was faithful to me when he was almost forced to discontinue studying with me. |
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| | The Music Chamber - Alban Berg |
| | These three composers would go on to revolutionize the way the world heard music in the twentieth century. | | | Due the massive inheritance he received, he could focus his entire life on composing music. | | | Under his guidance, Berg began to compose under the systems that Schoenberg had created. |
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| | The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II |
| | His books include Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern (Sixth Edition, California, 1991); The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 1, Wozzeck (California, 1980) and Volume 2, Lulu (California, 1985); and The Listening Composer (California, 1990). | | | The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I, by George Perle | | | The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II 352 pages |
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| | Berg, Alban |
| | The Violin Concerto (1935) and other works use twelve-tone technique with tonal elements. | | | Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629 | | | Of Schoenberg's two major pupils, Berg is the romantic and Webern is the classicist. |
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| | ArkivMusic Beethoven: Complete String Quartets / Alban Berg Quartett |
| | This time around, the seven discs are housed in an attractive, space-saving box, with no skimping on annotations. | | | More to the point, the past 20 years have seen more distinguished Beethoven quartet recordings than at any other time in the phonograph's history. | | | None, however, are consistently so accomplished as the Alban Berg Quartett's. |
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| | Anecdote - Alban Berg - Long Live Berg |
| | [Trivia: "The difficulty [composing Lulu]," Berg wrote to Anton von Webern in 1931, "is to work with music, which is conditioned by musical laws, into the [Frank] Wedekind text which is determined by dialectical laws, make the two coincide and span over it the powerful arc of the action."] | | | When excerpts from Alban Berg's Lulu were first performed in Vienna in 1935, the composer overheard of group of would-be critics in the audience shouting: "Long live Tchaikovsky!" "Poor boys!" Berg remarked. | | | Anecdote - Alban Berg - Long Live Berg |
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