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Alban Maria Johannes Berg (/ˈɑːlbɑːn bɛrɡ/;German: [ˈbɛɐ̯k]; February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with 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.
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. 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. Berg studied with Schoenberg for six years until 1911. Berg admired him as a composer and mentor, and they remained close lifelong friends.
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Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,- Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) - Performers: New Zealand String Quartet - Year of recording: 2004 String Quartet, Op. 3, written in 1910. 00:00 - I. Langsam 10:19 - II. Mäßige Viertel Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) was the last work the composer produced under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg. First perfomed in 1911 and published nine years later, the two-movement String Quartet was not well received at its premiere and received no further performances for more than a decade. Schoenberg, however, admired the piece, and the work may rightly be regarded as an appropriate valedictory for Berg's transition from apprenticeship to musical maturity. According to Berg's wife Helene, the inspiration for the Quartet was born of the frustra...
nine short pieces for various chamber ensemble combinations. 1. String Quartet Fugue 2. String Quartet Variations on an Original Theme 3. Sarabande 4. Minuet in d minor 5. Minuet in c minor 6. Three String Quartet Variations on a Theme by Schumann 7. Theme and Five Variations for Violin and Piano 8. Fugue with Two Themes for String Quintet with Piano in Continuo Style 9. Adagio
Alban Berg (1885-1935): Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915). I. Präludium: Langsam II. Reigen: Anfangs etwas zögernd - Leich beschwingt [04:32] III. Marsch: Mässiges Marschtempo [10:07] The Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra diretta da Claudio Abbado. Registrazione Live, Erkel Theatre Budapest, 30 Settembre 1969. Cover image: painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. *** The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900's (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtub...
Glenn Gould plays the Sonata in One Movement by Alban Berg (HD video)
Format: 8 × CD, Compilation Box Set Country: UK Released: 2008 Genre: Classical Style: Modern Thema Scherzoso Con Variazioni -- Adagio-- Rondo Ritmico Con Introduzione Orchestra – Staatskapelle Dresden Conductor – Giuseppe Sinopoli Ⓟ 1996, 1998, 1999 Teldec Classics © 2008 Warner Classics & Jazz, Warner Music UK Ltd.
- Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) - Orchestra: New York Philharmonic - Conductor: Lorin Maazel - Soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter - Year of recording: 2007 (Live) The Violin Concerto was written in 1935, and is probably Berg’s best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece. 00:00 – I. a) Andante (Prelude) / b) Allegretto (Scherzo) 11:41 – II. a) Allegro (Cadenza) / b) Adagio (Chorale Variations) The piece stemmed from a commission from the violinist Louis Krasner. When he first received the commission, Berg was working on his opera Lulu, and he did not begin work on the concerto for some months. The event that spurred him into writing was the death by polio of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler (once Gustav Mahler’...
Alban Berg Lulu Suite Symphonische Stücke aus der Oper 'Lulu' (1934) I. Rondo: Andante und Hymne 00:00 II. Ostinato: Allegro 14:46 III. Lied der Lulu: Comodo 18:34 IV. Variationen: Moderato 21:33 V Adagio: Sostenuto – Lento – Grave 25:00 Arleen Auger, soprano City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle, conductor Painting: Arnold Gerstl, Reclining Woman and Approaching Figures, Leicester, Leicester City Arts and Museums Gallery Alban Berg assembled his Lulu Suite for orchestra and soprano in 1934. This suite involves music from his opera Lulu, which was still incomplete when the composer died prematurely at the age of fifty in the following year. The opera's short score was already finished, and the first two acts were completely orchestrated. It was from these first two mov...
Painters: Edward Munch - Pablo Picasso - Egon Schiele Sound Reference URL: http://goo.gl/9FbTF
00:01 Lulu Suite 26:32 Drei Orcheserstücke op. 6 32:05 Fünf Orchesterlieder op. 4
Alban Berg (1885-1935): Violin concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" (1935), dedicated to Manon Gropius, the daughter of Walter, the well known architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and Alma Gropius, the widow of the romantic composer Gustav Mahler. Concerto pour violon "A la Mémoire d'un Ange" dédicacé à Manon Gropius, la fille de l'architecte et fondateur du Bauhaus de Dessau, Walter Gropius, et de la veuve du compositeur et chef d'orchestre viennois Gustav Mahler, Alma Gropius. I Andante - Allegretto (00:00-10:57); II Allegro - Adagio (10:58-26:00) Perlman; Ozawa: Boston Symphony Orchestra