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Alban Berg was an Austrian composer who lived from 1885 to 1935 and is known for his contributions to modern classical music. His work is significant in the history of 20th-century composition, though the specific details of his innovations and influence would require additional context to fully explain.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1935
- Works
- 86
Top works
- Écrits
- Arnold Schönberg
- A. Schönberg
- Sonate für Klavier, op. 1
- ווצק
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Film & TV
Sound · Vienna, Austria
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Austria
- Active from
- 1885
- Active to
- 1935
Discography
- Violin Concerto1954
- Berg: Sonata for Piano, op. 1 / Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, op. 11 / Křenek: Sonata no. 3 for Piano, op. 92, no. 41959
- Suites From Wozzeck / Lulu1961
- Berg: Violinkonzert / Martinon: Violinkonzert Nr. 21971
- “Wozzeck” Act III / Seven Early Songs1973
- Alan Berg: Lulu (suite) / Richard Strauss: Salome (final scene)1974
- Wozzeck1974
- Kammermusik1978
- Lulu1978
- Lulu1979
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- 105,928
- Total plays
- 874,347
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Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 - December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a highly personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg. His family lived comfortably until the death of his father in 1900. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alban+B
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Quotes
- “I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”
- “The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.”
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Alban Berg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Letter from Alban Berg and Helene Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Alban Berg and Helene Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann and Margarete Hauptmann
Letter from Alban Berg and Helene Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Alban Berg and Helene Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann and Margarete Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Helene Berg and Alban Berg to Gerhart Hauptmann
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Encyclopedic overview
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (/bɛərɡ/ BAIRG; Austrian German: [ˈalbaːn ˈbɛrg]; 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. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure".
Berg was born and lived in Vienna. He began to compose at the age of fifteen. He studied counterpoint, music theory and harmony with Arnold Schoenberg between 1904 and 1911, and adopted his principles of developing variation and the twelve-tone technique. Berg's major works include the operas Wozzeck (1914–1922) and Lulu (from 1928; finished posthumously), the chamber pieces Lyric Suite and Chamber Concerto, as well as a Violin Concerto. He also composed a number of songs (lieder).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alban Berg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.