Alban Berg

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

El Cuarteto de cuerda, Op. 3, de Alban Berg (1885-1935), fue escrito en 1910, aunque permanecería inédito durante otros diez años. En dos movimientos, es una de las composiciones más originales de Ber...

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UE presents a new critical edition of Berg's Violin Concerto, which seeks to correct errors which have been incorporated in the score since its first publication. Carefully researched, this new defini...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

Es ist mir nicht im Schlaf eingefallen, mit der Komposition des Wozzeck die Kunstform der Oper reformieren zu wollen. Abgesehen von dem Wunsch, gute Musik zu machen, den geistigen Inhalt von Büchners...

Having circulated a piano score of his opera Wozzeck, Berg was asked to assemble a few excerpts (bruchstücke, or fragments) for an international music festival, as staging constraints made performance...

The Seven Early Songs as they appear here are revisions, or to be even more precise, revisions of reworkings of Berg's own compositions. Together with many others, the songs were composed during the y...

Alban Berg (1885-1935) compuso su KAMMERKONZERT FÜR KLAVIER UND GEIGE MIT 13 BLÄSERN (Concierto de cámara para piano y violín con 13 instrumentos de viento) entre los años 1923 y 1925. Dedicado a su m...

Alban Berg (1885-1935) compuso su KAMMERKONZERT FÜR KLAVIER UND GEIGE MIT 13 BLÄSERN (Concierto de cámara para piano y violín con 13 instrumentos de viento) entre los años 1923 y 1925. Dedicado a su m...

für Klarinette und Orgel eingerichtet von Helmut Bornefeld - 'Angesichts der aphoristischen Schreibweise der 'Vier Stücke' besteht die Hauptaufgabe darin, dem klanglichen und vor allem dem anspruchsvo...

'Angesichts der aphoristischen Schreibweise der 'Vier Stücke' besteht die Hauptaufgabe darin, dem klanglichen und vor allem dem anspruchsvollen dynamischen Geschehen dieser Musik auf organale Weise ge...

Das Violinkonzert aus dem Jahr 1935 ist wohl das bekannteste und am häufigsten aufgeführte Instrumentalwerk Alban Bergs. Im Auftrag des Geigers Louis Krasner geschrieben, ist es seine letzte vollendet...

Expansion of the small 'Himmlische' The expansion of the 'Breitkopf Studienpartituren' with their 'heavenly' small blue cover is proceeding with nice regularity. After the Mozart piano concertos in th...

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016 Composed early, orchestrated late The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty...

4 4 5 4 - 6 4 4 1 - Pk(2), Schl(4), Hf(2), Cel, Str Details Dauer (min): 19 Min.

(...) Close study of the score has revealed the remarkable sophistication and originality of the architecture of the Altenberglieder. The careful organization of motives relating Songs I and V is perh...

Alban Berg's String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already composed in 1910 and first published in 1920, it was the last composition the 25-ye...