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The Berg Quartet was founded in 1970 by four young professors of the Vienna Academy of Music, and made its debut in the Vienna Konzerthaus in autumn 1971. The widow of the composer Alban Berg, Helene, attended an early private concert after which she gave her consent for the quartet to use her husband's name.
Alban Maria Johannes Berg ... The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet named after him, active from 1971 until 2008. The asteroid 4528 Berg is named after him (1983).
In 1970 he founded the Alban Berg Quartet, a string quartet, together with violinists Günter Pichler and Klaus Maetzl, and cellist Valentin Erben. They played a house concert for Alban Berg's widow Helene, who supported the name. Beyerle and his wife organised the quartet's concert tours. [1] He remained with ensemble until 1981.
In 1970 Günter Pichler founded the Alban Berg Quartett and was the first violin of this world famous string quartet until it disbanded in 2008. In addition to his work with the Alban Berg Quartett and as a teacher, Günter Pichler started a career as a conductor.
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 ...
Lyric Suite, string quartet, composed 1925–6; Drei Sätze aus der Lyrischen Suite, arranged for string orchestra, 1928 "Der Wein" (Charles Baudelaire), concert aria, soprano and orchestra, composed 1929; Four-part Canon Alban Berg an das Frankfurter Opernhaus, composed 1930; Lulu, composed 1929–35, orchestration of Act 3 completed by ...
It plays Liszt's romantic elegy, 'At the Grave of Richard Wagner,' with rich, dark sounds. The performance of Berg's 'String Quartet (Op. 3)' is precise and the quartet makes Webern's 'Five Pieces (Op 5). sound easy to play as the compositions seem to appear magically, shift color and vanish." [1]
The String Quartet, Op. 3, by Alban Berg was composed in 1910. It was not published until 1920. [1]The two-movement string quartet is among Berg's most original compositions. . Reminiscents of Schoenberg's F ♯ minor quartet, the sound owes more to Romanticism than to contemporary composers like Webe