Look up Berg or berg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Berg may refer to:

People[link]

• Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
• Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor

Places[link]

Antarctica[link]

• Berg Mountain, Oates Land
• Berg Peak, Victoria Land
• Berg Bay, Victoria Land
• Berg Ice Stream

Austria[link]

• Berg, Lower Austria
• Berg im Drautal, in Carinthia
• Berg bei Rohrbach, in Upper Austria
• Berg im Attergau, in Upper Austria

France[link]

• Berg, Bas-Rhin, a municipality in the Arrondissement of Saverne
• Berg-sur-Moselle, a commune in the Moselle department

Germany[link]

• Berg (state), a medieval territory in today's North Rhine-Westphalia
• Grand Duchy of Berg (1806-1813), created by Emperor Napoleon
• Berg, Baden-Württemberg, a district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg
• Berg, Upper Franconia, a district of Hof, Bavaria
• Berg, Upper Palatinate, district of Neumarkt, Bavaria
• Berg, Upper Bavaria, district of Starnberg in Bavaria
  • Castle Berg (Lake Starnberg)
• Berg im Gau, district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bavaria
  • Berg im Donaugau Abbey, a historical house of the Benedictine Order in the area of Berg im Gau
• Berg, Ahrweiler, Verbandsgemeinde Altenahr, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Berg, Rhein-Lahn, Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Berg, Germersheim, Verbandsgemeinde Nastätten, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Bergisches Land (Country or Land of Berg), a low mountain range region within the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen

Luxembourg[link]

• Berg, Luxembourg, a village
• Colmar-Berg, formerly "Berg"
  • Berg Castle in Colmar-Berg

Netherlands[link]

• Berg (Valkenburg), part of Berg en Terblijt, municipality of Valkenburg, Limburg
• Berg aan de Maas, municipality of Stein, Limburg
• Berg en Dal, a village in the province of Gelderland
• Berg en Terblijt, a former village in the province of Limburg
• Berg (North Brabant)
• Berg (Margraten), a hamlet
• Berg (Meijel)

Norway[link]

• Berg, Norway, a municipality
• Berg, Nordland, a village in the municipality of Sømna
• Berg, Østfold, a former municipality in Østfold county
• Berg concentration camp
• Berg, Oslo, a borough of Oslo
• Berg (station), a metro station in Oslo
• Berg Upper Secondary School, in Oslo
• Berg skole (Trondheim), a primary school

Sweden[link]

• Berg Municipality, a town
• Berg, Åtvidaberg, a locality in the municipality of Åtvidaberg
• Berg, Gävle, a locality in Gävle

Switzerland[link]

• Berg, Thurgau
• Berg, St. Gallen
• Berg am Irchel, Zurich

Elsewhere[link]

• Berg, Alexandria, Virginia
• Berg Lake, in British Columbia, Canada
• Berg River, Western Cape Province, South Africa

Businesses[link]

• Berg Automobile Company, a former manufacturer of automobiles in Cleveland, Ohio
• Berg Propulsion, a Swedish company that makes maritime propellers
• Berg Publishers, an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England

Other uses[link]

• 4528 Berg, an asteroid
• Berg Fighter or Berg D.I, an Austian single-engine, single-seater fighter biplane used in World War I
• Berg connector, a brand of electrical connector used in computer hardware
• Berg Party, a local political party in Berg, Sweden
• Berg Balance Scale, a clinical test of a person's static and dynamic balance abilities

See also[link]

• Berg report, published by the World Bank in 1981
• Barg (disambiguation)
• Birg (disambiguation)
• Borg (disambiguation)
• Burg (disambiguation)
• Bergen (disambiguation)

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

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.

Education[link]

He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did not begin to compose until he was fifteen, when he started to teach himself music. In late February or early March 1902 he fathered a child with Marie Scheuchl, a servant girl in the Berg family household. His daughter, Albine, was born on December 4, 1902.

Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904. With Schoenberg he studied counterpoint, music theory, and harmony.^[1] By 1906, he was studying music full-time; by 1907, he began composition lessons. His student compositions included five drafts for piano sonatas. He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs (Sieben Frühe Lieder), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year. The early sonata sketches eventually culminated in Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1907–1908); it is one of the most formidable "first" works ever written.^[2]

Berg studied with Schoenberg for six years until 1911. Berg admired him as a composer and mentor, and they remained close lifelong friends.

Among Schoenberg's teaching was the idea that the unity of a musical composition depends upon all its aspects being derived from a single basic idea; this idea was later known as developing variation. Berg passed this on to his students, one of whom, Theodor Adorno, stated: "The main principle he conveyed was that of variation: everything was supposed to develop out of something else and yet be intrinsically different".^[3] The Piano Sonata is an example—the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.

Innovation[link]

Berg was a part of Vienna's cultural elite during the heady fin de siècle period. His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg. In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family (said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski);^[4] despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

In 1913, two of Berg's Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg (1912) were premièred in Vienna, conducted by Schoenberg. Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra. The performance caused a riot, and had to be halted. This was a crippling blow to Berg's self-confidence: he effectively withdrew the work, which is surely one of the most extraordinarily innovative and assured first orchestral compositions in the literature, and it was not performed in full until 1952. The full score remained unpublished until 1966.

From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austrian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck. After the end of World War I, he settled again in Vienna where he taught private pupils. He also helped Schoenberg run his Society for Private Musical Performances, which sought to create the ideal environment for the exploration and appreciation of unfamiliar new music by means of open rehearsals, repeat performances, and the exclusion of professional critics.

[edit] Success of Wozzeck

Three excerpts from Wozzeck were performed in 1924, and this brought Berg his first public success. The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin. Today Wozzeck is seen as one of the century's most important works. Berg completed the orchestration of only the first two acts of his later three-act opera Lulu, before he died. The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to "complete" the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell format. An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris (under Pierre Boulez) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death. The complete opera has rapidly entered the repertoire as one of the landmarks of contemporary music and, like Wozzeck, remains a consistent audience draw.

Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected (and financially much-needed) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto (1935). This profoundly elegiac work, composed at unaccustomed speed and posthumously premièred, has become Berg's best-known and beloved composition. Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song. The Violin Concerto was dedicated "to the memory of an Angel", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite (1926), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra (completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck); and the Chamber Concerto (Kammerkonzert, 1923–25) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it "Berg's strictest composition" and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Death[link]

Berg died in Vienna, on Christmas Eve 1935, from blood poisoning apparently caused by an insect-sting-induced carbuncle on his back. He had been reduced to near-poverty and it is said that to save money his wife carried out an ill-advised operation using a pair of scissors. Later he was taken to hospital, although too late to prevent the onset of blood poisoning. He was 50 years old.

Legacy[link]

Berg is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and to date is the most widely performed opera composer among the Second Viennese School.^[5] He is considered to have brought more human values to the twelve-tone system, his works seen as more emotional than Schoenberg's.^[6] Critically he is seen to have preserved the Viennese tradition in his music.^{[7][verification needed]} His popularity has been more easily secured than many other Modernists since he plausibly combined both Romantic and Expressionist idioms. Though Berg's Romanticism at one time seemed a drawback for some more modernist composers,^{[weasel words]} the Berg scholar Douglas Jarman writes in the New Grove: "As the 20th century closed, the 'backward-looking' Berg suddenly came as [George] Perle remarked, to look like its most forward-looking composer."^[8]

Major compositions[link]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Adorno, Theodor W. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. Trans. Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Jarman, Douglas. "Alban Berg", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed April 9, 2007), (subscription access)
• Warrack, John and Ewan West. The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 1992. ISBN 0-19-869164-5

Further reading[link]

Analytical writings[link]

• Adorno, Theodor W. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. Trans. Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Bruhn, Siglind, ed. Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg’s Music. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
• Headlam, Dave. The Music of Alban Berg. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
• Jarman, Douglas. Dr. Schon's Five-Strophe Aria: Some Notes on Tonality and Pitch Association in Berg's Lulu. Perspectives of New Music 8/2 (Spring/Summer 1970).
• Jarman, Douglas. Some Rhythmic and Metric Techniques in Alban Berg's Lulu. Musical Quarterly 56/3 (July 1970).
• Jarman, Douglas. Lulu: The Sketches. International Alban Berg Society Newsletter, 6 (June 1978).
• Jarman, Douglas. The Music of Alban Berg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
• Jarman, Douglas. Countess Geschwitz's Series: A Controversy Resolved?. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 107 (1980/81).
• Jarman, Douglas. Some Observations on Rhythm, Meter and Tempo in Lulu. In Alban Berg Studien. Ed. Rudolf Klein. Vienna: Universal Edition, 1981.
• Jarman, Douglas. Lulu: The Musical and Dramatic Structure. Royal Opera House Covent Garden program notes, 1981.
• Jarman, Douglas. The 'Lost' Score of the 'Symphonic Pieces from Lulu'. International Alban Berg Society Newsletter 12 (Fall/Winter 1982).
• Lauder, Robert Neil. Two Early Piano Works of Alban Berg: A Stylistic and Structural Analysis. Thesis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1986.
• Perle, George. The Operas of Alban Berg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
• Schmalfeldt, Janet. "Berg’s Path to Atonality: The Piano Sonata, Op. 1". Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives. Eds. David Gable and Robert P. Morgan, pp. 79–110. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Schweizer, Klaus. Die Sonatensatzform im Schaffen Alban Bergs. Stuttgart: Satz und Druck, 1970.
• Wilkey, Jay Weldon. Certain Aspects of Form in the Vocal Music of Alban Berg. Ph.D. thesis. Ann Arbor: Indiana University, 1965.

Biographical writings[link]

• Brand, Juliane, Christopher Hailey and Donald Harris, eds. The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters. New York: Norton, 1987.
• Grun, Bernard, ed. Alban Berg: Letters to his Wife. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.
• Floros, Contantin. Trans. by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch. Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Redlich, H.F. Alban Berg, the Man and His Music. London: John Calder, 1957.
• Reich, Willi. The life and work of Alban Berg. Trans. Cornelius Cardew. New York : Da Capo Press, 1982.
• Monson, Karen. Alban Berg: a biography. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1979.
• Carner, Mosco. Alban Berg: the man and the work. London: Duckworth, 1975.
• Redlich, Hans Ferdinand. Alban Berg, the man and his music. London: J. Calder, 1957.
• Leibowitz, René. Schoenberg and his school; the contemporary stage of the language of music. Trans. Dika Newlin. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alban Berg

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alban Berg

• Alban Berg biography and works on the UE website (publisher)
• The Lied and Art Song Texts Page greated and mantained from Emily Ezust Texts of the Lieder of Berg with translations in various languages.
• Free scores by Alban Berg at the International Music Score Library Project
• Alban Berg at Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music
• Excerpts from sound archives of Berg's works.
• Three Pieces for Orchestra op.6

Avicii
Background information
Birth name	Tim Bergling
Also known as	Tim Berg, Tom Hangs
Born	(1989-09-08) 8 September 1989 (age 22)
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	House, Progressive House, Electro House
Occupations	Electronic musician, DJ, record producer
Years active	2007 – present
Labels	LE7ELS, Strike, Joia, Vicious Vinyl, Ministry of Sound
Associated acts	DJ Daaar, Leona Lewis, Flo Rida, Etta James, Amanda Wilson, DJ Shadow, Sebastien Drums, David Guetta, Afrojack, The Eye, DJ eiiBollex, aLmAd
Website	www.avicii.com

Tim Bergling (born 8 September 1989), known professionally as Avicii, Tom Hangs, Ashwin, and Tim Berg, is a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer.^[1] His debut single, "Seek Bromance", reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Sweden. In 2011, Avicii released "Levels" (sampling the song "Something's Got a Hold On Me" by Etta James), which reached the top ten in India, Croatia, Bosnia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and topped the charts in Hungary, Norway and Sweden.

In 2011, Avicii was ranked No. 6 on the Top 100 DJs list by DJ Magazine.^[2] In 2012, Avicii was the main headliner Saturday night at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL, where he appeared onstage with Madonna. He is scheduled to headline at EDC NY, Austin City Limits Music Festival and EDC Vegas this year.^[3]

Early life[link]

Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Avicii emerged in the music industry in 2008, when he was 18 years old, compiling a remix of the theme song to the Commodore 64 video game Lazy Jones. This led to his first release on Strike Recordings, entitled "Lazy Lace."

In 2010, Avicii released a collaboration with fellow Swedish DJ John Dahlbäck, titled "Don't Hold Back." He is additionally working on projects with internationally-recognized DJs Tiësto and Sebastian Ingrosso.^[4] While his work is primarily electronic synthetic tracks, EMI released a vocal version of his track "Bromance," titled "Seek Bromance."^[5]

In October 2010, Avicii signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music Publishing, one of the recording industry's "big four".

In 2011, his collaboration track, "Sunshine", with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the category for Best Dance Recording.^[6] His track 'Fade into Darkness' was sampled by Leona Lewis on single "Collide". The sampling was not accredited and lead to controversy as Avicii attempted to block the singles release. However, matters was resolved outside of court with representatives stating "that Leona Lewis and Avicii will work together on the forthcoming single of Collide". ^[7]

Influences[link]

Avicii's influences include Tiësto, Daft Punk, Laidback Luke, Jean Moreno, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Axwell, Ryan Blair, Eric Prydz, Josef Kelly and Ste Kirwan.

"I’ve always been into music, and growing up with older siblings. I’ve also had loads of different influences when it comes to my music taste. There are loads of other people that have influenced me but I think the biggest inspirations I’ve had aside from my manager has been the Swedish House Mafia guys and Eric Prydz, they were the ones who first got me into house!" Avicii – April 2011^[8]

His first big track, "Manman," was released on Pete Tong's label, Bedroom Bedlam, after winning Pete Tong's Fast Trax with 70% of the votes.

Touring[link]

2010/2011[link]

North America[link]

In North America, he played at Palace and The Guelph Concert Theatre in Guelph, Ontario; Club Glow in Washington, D.C.; SET and Nikki Beach in Miami; Club Pacha in New York; Electric Zoo Festival at Randall's Island in New York; Ultra Music Festival in Miami; Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; Ruby Skye in San Francisco; Vision Night Club in Chicago; The Guvernment in Toronto; Beta Night Club in Waterloo, Ontario; Stages in Kingston, Ontario; Tokyo Club in Montreal; Club Mansion in London, Ontario, The Majestic in Madison, Wisconsin, Congress Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Wet Republic's Daylife in Las Vegas and The Edmonton Event Centre in Edmonton, among other locations.^[9] His New Year's Eve 2010 party in New York City had to be cancelled due to too many tickets being sold and the venue being overbooked.^[10][11]

The largest crowd Avicii has played for to date was on the main stage at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas on 26 June 2011. On 7 September 2011, Avicii performed at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. On 15 September, he played a private set for students of McGill University in Montreal. On 9 September he played at The Necto (nightclub) in Ann Arbor, MI. On 11 September, he performed in Syracuse, NY as part of the annual fall concert series Juice Jam. London, Ontario as part of the O-Week celebration for The University of Western Ontario. On 12 September, he performed at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, New York to a crowd of mostly University at Albany students. On 22 October 2011 Avicii performed at Bert's Warehouse in Detroit, Michigan. On 28 October, he performed at Petco Park in San Diego, CA. On 29 October 2011 Avicii performed at Pic-a-Chic farm in Bloomington, Indiana as part of a Halloween and Indiana University Homecoming celebration.^[11][12] Avicii also played at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ on 29 October 2011 and at Spring Party Weekend at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY on 20 April 2012.

Europe[link]

Avicii headlined at the 2011 Inox Festival in Toulouse, France. Other appearances include Space in Ibiza; Monaco International Clubbing Show at Grimaldi Forum in Monaco; Fabulous Festival in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands; Ms Connexion in Mannheim; Aquarius Zrće in Novalja; La Dune in Toulouse; Illusions at Festivalpark Complex in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; AF-Borgen in Lund, Sweden; and Mach 1 in Nuremberg.^[9]

Several of his concerts have been recorded for Sirius XM Radio's Trance and Progressive House channel. On 23 October 2010, in support of his world tour, Avicii presented his work in an exclusive hour-long set on Channel 52 of the Electric Area on Sirius XM Radio.^[13]

Dominican Republic[link]

Avicii has played at Tara's in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 8 July 2011, at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 9 July 2011, Governors Island, NYC on 17 July 2011.

Belgium[link]

Avicii played at the Tomorrowland in Boom, Belgium on 23 July 2011.

Slovenia[link]

On 15 October, he performed in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the International Foam Festival with David Morales and Ian Carey.

2012[link]

Australia[link]

December 2011 Avicii was on the line up for the country wide festival Stereosonic. Avicii and Calvin Harris attended homebar Sydney, Australia on 14 January for charity.

Sweden[link]

Avicii performed three shows in his hometown, Stockholm, on 2 and 3 March. The concerts were at Ericsson Globe Arena. During the first concert on the afternoon of Friday 2 March, a temporary platform built for the audience collapsed. A total of 26 people were sent to the hospital, and one 17-year old teenage girl suffered a severe concussion. As a result of the accident, the second concert, scheduled for Friday evening, was canceled. A new platform was built in hope that the Saturday evening concert could continue.^[14]

South Africa[link]

Avicii completed a tour of South Africa in 2012, performing in three different cities over two days. The first show was at Wave House in Durban on 30 March, where he played at 22:00. The second show was at Wild Waters in Johannesburg on 31 March. The venue plays host to South Africa's premier outdoor music festival, H2O. Avicii played the "sunset set" at 17:00 in perfect weather conditions to a fantastic crowd. After playing for 1 hour and 30 minutes, he flew to Cape Town to play the midnight set at Thunder City, where he played for 2 hours and 45 minutes to an even more fantastic crowd. Various South African DJ's accompanied him on the tour, including DJ Fresh, Euphonik, Pascal & Pearce and Goldfish.

Mexico[link]

Avicii performed at Electro Beach Music Festival in Puerto Vallarta on 8 and 15 March; he also performed at Six Flags Mexico on 9 March 2012. ^[15]

Taiwan[link]

Avicii performed at Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall on 6 April.

Singapore[link]

Avicii Performed at Zoukout 2011 in Sentosa Siloso Beach,Singapore.

Sri Lanka[link]

Avicii performed as the headlining act for the innaugural Sunset Music Festival in Colombo,Sri Lanka December 2011.

Israel[link]

Avicii performed in Tel Aviv on May 31, 2012 at the XL night awards competition.

Turkey[link]

Avicii had stage for 3 hours at Samsung Galaxy SIII party at Caddebostan/Istanbul ^[16]

Music[link]

[edit] Levels

Avicii's most notable song has been the single "Levels" which was released officially 28 Oct 2011. The song had already been a major hit in the EDM world all through 2011, but after its official release it became a huge mainstream hit, giving Avicii and the EDM movement even greater notoriety. The song was written by Avicii, Ash Pournouri, and an unidentified third party, and contains a vocal sample from the 1962 gospel-inspired "Something's Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James. The same vocal sample was used first by Pretty Lights in his 2006 song "Finally Moving". This sample was also used by Flo Rida in his single "Good Feeling", which was produced by Avicii and holds a close resemblance to "Levels".

[edit] 2012

On 23 March 2012, Avicii's unsigned single "Last Dance" was previewed on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1. At Ultra Music Festival 2012 he played a teaser of his remix of Ruth-Anne's "All You Need Is Love". Also, Avicii played two new remixes, Madonna's "Girl Gone Wild" titled "Avicii vs Madonna – Girl Gone Wild" (Avicii's UMF Remix) and Avicii vs Lenny Kravitz – Superlove (Avicii's Space Mix).

He is set to play one of the largest shows by a DJ at The O₂ in London. The date is billed simply as "Avicii in London".^[17]

Avicii recently released a new song after reaching two million followers on Facebook. This song, "2 Million" was put out as a free download on his official Soundcloud. ^[18]

Discography[link]

Mixed Albums[link]

• 2011 – Avicii presents Strictly Miami^[19]

• 2011 – The Singles - EP^[20]

Singles[link]

As featured artist[link]

Guest appearances[link]

Songs & Remixes[link]

2009[link]

Songs[link]

• "Ryu"
• "Alcoholic (Avicii Edit)"
• "Manman"

Remixes[link]

• "Set Me Free (Avicii Remix)" - Phonat
• "Holiday (Avicii Remix) - Dizzee Rascal (Feat. Chrome)"
• "New New New (Avicii Remix) - Bob Sinclar"

2010[link]

Songs[link]

• "Bromance (Avicii's Arena Mix)"
• "My Feelings For You (Feat. Sebastien Drums)"
• "Seek Bromance"

Remixes[link]

• "Gettin' Over You (Avicii Vocal Remix) - David Guetta (Feat. Chris Willis, LMFAO & Fergie)"
• "Gettin' Over You (Avicii Dub Remix) - David Guetta (Feat. Chris Willis, LMFAO & Fergie)"
• "Hang With Me (Avicii's Exclusive Club Mix)" - Robyn
• "Escape Me (Avicii's Remix At Night) - Tiësto (Feat. CC Sheffield)"
• "Rapture (Avicii's New Generation Mix)" - Nadia Ali
• "One Love" (Avicii Remix) - David Guetta (Feat. Estelle)

2011[link]

Songs[link]

• "Street Dancer"
• "Blessed (Feat. Shermanology)"
• "Collide (Feat. Avicii)" - Leona Lewis
• "Fade Into Darkness (Feat. Andreas Moe)"
• "Levels"
• "Nothing Without You"
• "Penguin"
• "Sunshine" - Feat.David Guetta

Remixes[link]

• "Drowning (Avicii Remix) - Armin Van Buuren"
• "Derezzed (Avicii Remix) - Daft Punk"
• "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Avicii ‘Tour’ Mix) - Coldplay"

2012[link]

Songs[link]

• "All You Need Is Love (Ruth-Anne)"
• "Last Dance"
• "Dancing In My Head (Feat. Eric Turner)"
• "Two Million"
• "Silhouettes"

Remixes[link]

• "Girl Gone Wild (Avicii's UMF Mix)" - Madonna
• "Superlove (Avicii's Space Mix)" - Lenny Kravitz

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Avicii on Myspace
• Avicii on Twitter
• Avicii on Facebook
• Avicii on Best4Ears.com
• Salacious Sound Interviews Avicii

Alfred Brendel, 2010

Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author.

Biography[link]

Brendel was born in Wiesenberg, Czechoslovakia, now Loučná nad Desnou, Czech Republic, to a non-musical family. They moved to Zagreb when Brendel was six, and later to Graz, where they lived during World War II, towards the end of which the 14-year old Brendel was sent to Yugoslavia to dig trenches. However, he developed frostbite and was taken to hospital. Brendel began piano lessons when he was six with Sofija Deželić, and at 14 he studied piano with Ludovica von Kaan and composition in the Graz Conservatory for the next two years, but otherwise had little formal music education.

After the war, Brendel composed music, as well as continuing to play the piano and to paint. However, he never had more formal piano lessons and although he attended masterclasses with Edwin Fischer and Eduard Steuermann, he was largely self-taught.

Brendel gave his first public recital in Graz at the age of 17.^[1] He called it "The Fugue In Piano Literature", and as well as fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt, it included some of Brendel's own compositions. However, he gave up composing shortly after this to concentrate on the piano. In 1949 he won 4th prize in the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy and moved to Vienna the following year. At the age of 21, he made his first record, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5. He went on to make a string of other records, including three complete sets of the Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas (one on Vox Records and two on Philips Records). He was the first performer to record the complete solo piano works of Beethoven.^[2] He has also recorded works by Liszt, Brahms (including Brahms' concertos), Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Unlike most classical pianists, Brendel has recorded very little by Frédéric Chopin other than the polonaises. An important collection of Alfred Brendel is the complete Mozart piano concertos recorded with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which is included in the Phillips 180 CD complete Mozart Edition.

Brendel recorded extensively for the Vox label, providing them his first of three sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas. He did not secure a major recording contract until the 1970s, nor did he play much outside Austria. His breakthrough came after a recital of Beethoven at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the day after which three major record labels called his agent. Around this time he moved to Hampstead, London, where he still resides.^[1] Since the 1970s, Brendel has recorded for Philips Classics Records.^[3]

Brendel has been married twice. His first marriage, from 1960 to 1972, was to Iris Heymann-Gonzala, and they had a daughter, Doris. In 1975, Brendel married Irene Semler, and the couple have three children; a son, Adrian, who is a cellist, and two daughters, Katharina and Sophie.^[4]

In April 2007, Brendel was one of the initial signatories of the "Appeal for the Establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations".^[5]

In 2009, Brendel was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania, about a Steinway & Sons piano tuner, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, where it was met with positive reviews by The New York Times^[6], as well as in Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the Goethe-Institut catalogue.

Work[link]

Brendel is regarded as one of the most thoughtful interpreters of classical Germanic works by such composers as Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. He plays relatively few 20th century works, but is closely associated with Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. Toward the end of his concert career he stopped playing many of the most physically demanding pieces in the repertoire, such as the Hammerklavier Sonata of Beethoven, owing to problems with arthritis.

Critical reaction to Brendel's playing has been mixed. While he has been lauded by Michael Steinberg as "the new Schnabel", critic Harold C. Schonberg noted that some critics and specialists accused the pianist of "pedanticism".^[7] Brendel's playing is sometimes described as being "cerebral",^[8] and he has said that he believes the primary job of the pianist is to respect the composer's wishes without showing off himself, or adding his own spin on the music:

"I am responsible to the composer, and particularly to the piece".^[4]

As well as his former mentor and teacher, Edwin Fischer, he cites Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Kempff, and the conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwängler as particular influences.

In recent years, Brendel has worked with younger pianists such as Paul Lewis, Mark Gasser, Roberto Carnevale, Andrew von Oeyen, Till Fellner and, most recently, Kit Armstrong.^[9] He has also performed in concert and recorded with his son Adrian.^[10]

In November 2007, Brendel announced that he would retire from the concert platform after his concert of 18 December 2008 in Vienna, which featured him as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat; the orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) was conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.^[2] His final concert in New York was at Carnegie Hall on 20 February 2008, with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Since his debut at the Carnegie Hall on 21 January 1973 he has appeared there 81 times, and in 1983 he became only the second pianist to perform the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Hall.

Brendel has been Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music since 1972.^[11]

Publications[link]

Brendel is also a published poet and author.^[12] His books include:

• Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts (Essays) (1976)
• Music Sounded Out (1990)
• One Finger Too Many (Poetry) (1998)
• Alfred Brendel on Music (collected essays) (2001)
• Me, of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer (2002) (UK edition: The Veil of Order)
• Cursing Bagels (Poetry) (2004)

Awards[link]

• Honorary Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE; 1989)
• Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford
• Sonning Award (2002; Denmark)
• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2004)
• Praemium Imperiale (2009)^[13]
• Voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame (2012)^[14]

Recordings[link]

• Alfred Brendel - Unpublished Live and Radio Performances 1968-2001
• Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Brendel III

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alfred Brendel

• Alfred Brendel official website

Interviews

• Alfred Brendel interview by Bruce Duffie

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Yung Berg
Yung Berg in Chicago, Illinois
Background information
Birth name	Christian Ward
Born	(1986-09-09) September 9, 1986 (age 25) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Years active	2001 - present
Labels	E1, Epic, Koch
Website	www.myspace.com/yungberg

Christian Ward (born September 9, 1986), better known by his stage name Yung Berg, is an American rapper from Chicago. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. His first single was "Sexy Lady" which features R&B singer Junior. Yung Berg had been previously signed to DMX's Bloodline Records as Ice Berg. He is featured on the Exit Wounds soundtrack. His debut album Look What You Made Me was released in 2008.^[1]

Career[link]

In 2001, he was signed to DMX's Bloodline Records. He made his debut on the Exit Wounds soundtrack on the song "Dog 4 Life" as Iceberg. However, his parents sent him to a military boarding school in Montana in 2001.^[2] He moved to Los Angeles after finishing school in 2003.^[2][3] In 2005, Yung Berg worked as a hypeman and recording assistant for Disturbing tha Peace member and Chicago rapper Shawnna. Later that year, he founded his Yung Boss imprint and production team Yung Bosses. Berg's debut single "Sexy Lady, which featured R&B singer Junior, became a hit on Los Angeles urban radio, and he signed with Epic Records among many labels that approached him. Berg's six-track EP Almost Famous: The Sexy Lady EP was released in July 2007. "Sexy Lady" peaked at #18 on the Billboard 100. In 2008, Berg released another single "Sexy Can I", a collaboration with singer Ray J, then his debut album Look What You Made Me.^[2] The second single was "Do That There", featuring Dude 'n' Nem, followed by "The Business", featuring Casha, which peaked at #33 on the Hot 100.^[4]