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Alban Maria Johannes Berg (/ b ɛər ɡ / BAIRG, [1] German: [ˈalbaːn ˈbɛʁk]; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique . [ 2 ]
Klein was born in Budapest.He was a student of Alban Berg and the inventor of the all-interval twelve-tone row. [1] He studied with Schoenberg from 1917 to 1918, with Berg from 1918 to 1924, and prepared the piano-vocal score for Berg's Wozzeck and the piano score of Berg's Chamber Concerto.
Sketch of Alban Berg by Emil Stumpp. The following is an incomplete list of the compositions of Alban Berg: Jugendlieder (1), composed 1901–4, voice and piano, published 1985 [1] "Herbstgefühl" (Siegfried Fleischer) "Spielleute" (Henrik Ibsen) "Wo der Goldregen steht" (F. Lorenz) "Lied der Schiffermädels" (Otto Julius Bierbaum)
The Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder) (c. 1905 – 1908), are early compositions of Alban Berg, written while he was under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg.They are an interesting synthesis combining Berg's heritage of pre-Schoenberg song writing with the rigour and undeniable influence of Schoenberg.
Initial thematic statement of the tone row, mm. 2–4, cyclically permuted to begin on E ♭ in mm. 7–9 [2]. As Berg's friend and fellow Schoenberg pupil Erwin Stein wrote in the preface to the score, "[t]he work (Ist and VIth part, the main part of the IIIrd and the middle section of the Vth) has been mostly written strictly in accordance with Schoenberg's technique of the 'Composition with ...
Alban Berg. Kammerkonzert, for piano, violin, and winds (1923–25) Lyrische Suite, for string quartet (1925/26) Der Wein, concert aria for soprano and orchestra after a poem by Charles Baudelaire (1929) Lulu, opera after Die Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind (1928–35) Violinkonzert, for violin and orchestra (1935) Hanns Eisler
Bernstein uses Alban Berg as an example of twelve-tone writing which he designates as successful, namely the violin concerto. The row itself simulates traditional tonality slightly, so by acknowledging the presence of inevitable tonal hierarchies, Berg's work is more effective than other twelve-tone pieces.
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935. It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently performed piece. In it, Berg sought to reconcile diatonicism and dodecaphony. The work was commissioned by Louis Krasner, and dedicated by Berg to "the memory of an angel". It was the last work he completed.