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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
Alban Berg
Austrian composer (1885–1935)
Wozzeck
Wozzeck () is the first opera by Austrian composer Alban Berg, created between 1914 and 1922 and premiered on 14 December 1925 at the Berlin State Opera. Based on Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck (1836), it depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression.
Ernst Krenek
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Bluebeard's Castle
opera by Béla Bartók
expressionist music
western movement in music
Lulu
unfinished opera by Alban Berg
Benjamin Clementine
British musician (born 1988)
The Miraculous Mandarin
Pantomime ballet by Béla Bartók
Cornel Țăranu
Romanien composer and conductor (1934–2023)
Erwartung
'''''''' (Expectation''), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by . Composed in 1909, it was not premiered until 6 June 1924 in Prague conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as the soprano. The opera takes the unusual form of a monologue for solo soprano accompanied by a large orchestra. In performance, it lasts for about half an hour. It is sometimes paired with Béla Bartók's opera ''Bluebeard's Castle (1911), as the two works were roughly contemporary and share similar psychological themes. Schoenberg described Erwartung'', say
The Wooden Prince
Bartók ballet
Five Pieces for Orchestra
composition by Arnold Schoenberg
Drei Klavierstücke
set of piano pieces by Arnold Schönberg