Alban Berg

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.

Biography

Early life

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

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.

Berg

Berg may refer to:

People

Alban Berg (1885 - 1935), Austrian composer

Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)

Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor

Places

Antarctica

Berg Peak, Victoria Land

Berg Bay, Victoria Land

Berg Ice Stream

Austria

Berg, Lower Austria

Berg im Drautal, in Carinthia

Berg bei Rohrbach, in Upper Austria

Berg im Attergau, in Upper Austria

France

Berg, Bas-Rhin, a municipality in the Arrondissement of Saverne

Berg-sur-Moselle, a commune in the Moselle department

Germany

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

Berg Castle (Bavaria)

Berg Castle (Bavaria)

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

Alban

Alban may refer to:

Alban (surname)

Things or people from or related to Alba (Gaelic for 'Scotland')

Alban wine, a wine of Ancient Rome from Colli Albani

Alban Vineyards, California wine produced by vintner John Alban

Alban, an alternative name used in Spain for wines made from the Palomino (grape)

a minor Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 100,000

An Albanian masculine given name.

People

Saint Alban, the first British martyr

Saint Alban of Mainz, a German martyr

Saint Alban Roe, English martyr and Benedictine priest

Alban Berg, Austrian composer

Dr. Alban (born 1957), a Nigerian, Sweden-based musician and producer

Places

Alban hills of Rome, Italy

Alban, Tarn, France

Alban, Wisconsin, USA, a town

Alban (community), Wisconsin, USA, an unincorporated community

Alban, Ontario, Canada

Albán, Colombia

Albán, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Yr Alban, Welsh for Scotland

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the mid to late 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.

The string quartet was developed into its current form by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, with his works in the 1750s establishing the genre. Ever since Haydn's day the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form and represents one of the true tests of the composer's art. With four parts to play with, a composer working in anything like the classical key system has enough lines to fashion a full argument, but none to spare for padding. The closely related characters of the four instruments, moreover, while they cover in combination an ample compass of pitch, do not lend themselves to indulgence in purely colouristic effects. Thus, where the composer of symphonies commands the means for textural enrichment beyond the call of his harmonic discourse, and where the concerto medium offers the further resource of personal characterization and drama in the individual-pitted-against-the-mass vein, the writer of string quartets must perforce concentrate on the bare bones of musical logic. Thus, in many ways the string quartet is pre-eminently the dialectical form of instrumental music, the one most naturally suited to the activity of logical disputation and philosophical enquiry.

Piano sonata

A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Scarlatti, Scriabin, Medtner), two movements (Haydn), five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata) or even more movements. The first movement is generally composed in sonata form.

The Baroque keyboard sonata

In the Baroque era, the use of the term "sonata" generally referred to either the sonata da chiesa (church sonata) or sonata da camera (chamber sonata), both of which were sonatas for various instruments (usually one or more violins plus basso continuo). The keyboard sonata was relatively neglected by most composers.

The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (of which there are over 500) were the hallmark of the Baroque keyboard sonata, though they were for the most part unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime. The majority of these sonatas are in one-movement binary form, both sections being in the same tempo and utilizing the same thematic material. These sonatas are prized for both their technical difficulty and their musical and formal ingenuity. The influence of Spanish folk music is evident in Scarlatti's sonatas.

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Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
- 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’s wife) and Walter Gropius. Berg set Lulu to one side to write the concerto, which he dedicated “Dem Andenken eines Engels” (To the memory of an angel). Berg worked on the piece very quickly, completing it within a few months; it is thought that his working on the concerto was largely responsible for his failing to complete Lulu before his death on 24 December 1935 (the violin concerto was the last work that Berg completed). The work was premiered after the composer’s death, with Krasner playing the solo part, on 19 April 1936, in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona. The concerto is structured in two movements, each further divided into two sections. The first movement begins with an Andante in classical sonata form, followed by the Allegretto, a dance-like section. The second movement starts with an Allegro largely based on a single recurring rhythmic cell; this section has been described as cadenza-like, with very difficult passages in the solo part. The orchestration becomes rather violent at its climax (which is literally marked in the score as “High point of the Allegro”); the fourth and final section, marked Adagio, is in a much calmer mood. The first two sections are meant to represent life, the last two death and transfiguration. Like a number of other works by Berg, the piece combines the twelve tone technique, typical of serialistic music learned from his teacher Arnold Schoenberg with passages written in a freer, more tonal style. The score integrates serialism and tonality in a remarkable fashion. Of the 12-tone row that Berg used in this piece, the last four notes (ascending whole tones) are also the first four notes of the chorale melody “Es ist genug” (It Is Enough). Berg quotes this chorale directly in the last movement of the piece, where the harmonisation by Johann Sebastian Bach is heard in the clarinets.
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Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1
- Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) - Performer: Maria Yudina - Year of recording: 1964 Piano Sonata, Op. 1, written ca. 1907-1908. Berg's Piano Sonata was the composer's first published work. To the dismay of his most important mentor, Arnold Schoenberg, Berg had a great affinity with the lied; before beginning his studies with Schoenberg in 1904, the self-taught young Berg had already written dozens of songs. However, Schoenberg directed Berg toward instrumental composition, and under Schoenberg's tutelage Berg composed the Piano Sonata, the 12 Variations on a Theme (1908-1909) for piano, and the String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910). The sonata represents a major stylistic leap for Berg. As musicologist Bruce Archibald notes, the composer's earlier piano music is "in the language -- tonal, textural, and gestural -- of Brahms and Schumann." The sonata, on the other hand, is in a newer idiom, exhibiting the strong influence of the iconoclastic Schoenberg. Berg employs a traditional sonata form for his Op. 1. The work's single movement consists of an exposition that includes two contrasting themes, a development section in which the themes are expanded, and a recapitulation, in which the themes are restated. The harmonic language is profoundly Schoenbergian, and parallels may be drawn between this work and Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, with its whole-tone and quartal harmonies. The sonata also makes use of a three-note motivic cell -- consisting of a perfect fourth plus an augmented fourth, spanning a major seventh -- often found elsewhere in the early atonal music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. The influence of Wagner is also evident in the sonata, especially in Berg's use of unresolved tonal suspensions. Completed in 1908, the sonata was not published until 1910 (at the composer's own expense). Though Berg publicly performed a number of his own piano works, the sonata was never a part of his repertoire. The sonata is also Berg's only piano work to which he gave an opus number.
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Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"

Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"

Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. Since then it has established a solid place for itself in the mainstream operatic tradition, and modern productions are consistently sold out. Though its musical style is challenging, the quality of Berg's work (in particular, the characterization of the situation through clearly defined musical techniques) amply repays repeated listenings. Although a typical performance takes only slightly over an hour and a half, it is nevertheless an intense experience. The subject matter the inevitability of hardship and exploitation for the poor is brutal and uncompromisingly presented. Though Berg's musical style is not as violent as some other composers might have written for this story, the style suits the subject matter.
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Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)
Alban Berg (1885-1935): Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskarten-Texten von Peter Altenberg, per soprano e grande orchestra op.4 (1912) --- Halina Lukomska, soprano --- Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks diretta da Ernest Bour --- cover image by Gabriele Münter --- The music published in this channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study learned 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 Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.
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Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3
- 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 frustration both she and Berg experienced when Helene's father forbade the two lovers from seeing one another. In this work, Berg takes a great step beyond the compositional idiom of his Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1907 - 08) and the Four Songs, Op. 2 (1909 - 10). The Quartet's thematic craftsmanship bears a relationship to that of the earlier Piano Sonata, but the Quartet is far more complex. Whereas tonality had restricted Berg's language in the earlier work, the free atonal idiom of the Quartet allowed the composer to develop his material with unprecedented freedom and variety. - In the first movement Berg establishes a web of motivic relationships within a sonata-form outline. The opening theme bears a striking resemblance to a theme from Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899) and is built on a slightly modified whole-tone scale that would reappear in the opera Wozzeck (1917- 22). - A transformation of this theme becomes a fundamental figure in the second movement, which again contains material similar to that in the work of another composer: the love duet from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1857 - 59)[uploaded on this channel]. Scholars disagree on the formal design of this movement but tend to describe it as a type of rondo or sonata-rondo. Berg's use of motives and passages derived from cycles of intervals, his attention to detail and every detail's relationship to the whole, and his expert, idiomatic writing for the string quartet all point to the work of a composer assured in technique and possessed of a distinctive (romantic) musical personality.
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Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]

Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]

Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]
Alban Berg, Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder", Op. 4. "Seele, wie bist du schöner" (Soul, How Much More Beautiful Are You). Margaret Price, Soprano. Claudio Abbado, Conductor. London Symphony Orchestra. _____________________________________________________ The music published on my channel is dedicated solely to the purpose of divulgation and non-commercial use. If you believe that any copyright infringement exists on this channel, please let me know immediately before submitting a claim to YouTube. I will immediately remove the disputed video accordingly. Thanks for your contribution!
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Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg

Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg

Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg
Jessye Norman--Soprano Ann Schein--Piano 1994
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Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969
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 Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly.
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Renee Fleming -Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg

Renee Fleming -Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg

Renee Fleming -Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg
Claudio abbado conductor. Luzerne Festival
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Alban Berg - Three Orchestral Pieces, I

Alban Berg - Three Orchestral Pieces, I

Alban Berg - Three Orchestral Pieces, I
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6 (1913-1929) I. "Präludium" (Prelude) II. "Reigen" (Round Dances) III. "Marsch" (March) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Claudio Abbado In mid-1913 Berg was deeply depressed by the disastrous premiere of some of his Altenberg Lieder as well as by scorching criticism from his mentor Arnold Schoenberg, of the aphoristic nature of his recent music. Berg resolved to write a large-form orchestral work, his first, and initially tried to compose a one-movement symphony more or less in the manner of Schoenberg's first Chamber Symphony. Progress soon stalled, but Berg transferred some of this material into a new project that he called "a suite of character pieces for orchestra." The resulting Pieces (3) for orchestra came to be regarded as one of Berg's most ambitious works, excepting the operas and the Violin Concerto. The opening "Präludium" (Prelude) stands apart from the movements that follow in that it is not based on a traditional form. It does, however, introduce a number of small motivic figures and some larger ideas that recur throughout the work. It rises uncertainly from the depths of the orchestra, experiences a brief eruption, then builds more patiently and yearningly to a huge climax before sinking back into the nebulous material with which it began (with the opening chord sequence now played in retrograde, underlining the movement's arch construction). "Reigen" (Round Dances) features overlapping dance rhythms contrasting with unsettled background material; the fragmentary waltz-like material, which vaguely sounds like alternately deranged and comatose Mahler, is sandwiched between an unsettled introduction and coda. The concluding "Marsch" (March) again strongly calls Mahler to mind, although Berg has little use for Mahler's adventures in tonality (the motifs introduced in the first movement, rather than harmonic relationships, unify the Pieces (3)). This is not something one could actually march to; as with the previous movement, it's a free fantasy on the relevant rhythms. Even so, Berg does allude to sonata form in this movement in his handling of the motifs, and again, there's a catastrophic climax well before the end (complete with Mahlerian hammer blows), followed by a not quite tranquil coda. [allmusic.com]
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Jessye Norman; "Five Peter Altenberg Songs"; Alban Berg

Jessye Norman; "Five Peter Altenberg Songs"; Alban Berg

Jessye Norman; "Five Peter Altenberg Songs"; Alban Berg
Jessye Norman--Soprano Pierre Boulez--Conductor London Symphony Orchestra 1987/88
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Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]

Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]

Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]
Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) Performers: Juilliard String Quartet - Robert Mann (violin), Earl Carlyss (violin), Samuel Rhodes (viola), Claus Adam (cello) Year of recording: 1970 (live) Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite], written between 1925-1926 00:00 - I. Allegretto gioviale 03:09 - II. Andante amoroso 09:26 - III. Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico 12:43 - IV. Adagio appassionato 19:05 - V. Presto delirando – Tenebroso 24:00 - VI. Largo desolato Berg's Lyric Suite abounds in secret messages. In purely musical terms, Berg here for the first time employs Schoenberg's 12-tone system, basing some of the third and fifth movements on rows using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale. (And in one row, Berg proudly told Schoenberg, he used not only all available notes, but all available intervals.) Also, the fourth movement carries a quotation from the Lyric Symphony of Zemlinsky, to whom the suite is dedicated. In more personal terms, the music documents the course of Berg's extramarital affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin. Not only do the movement titles suggest an all-too-familiar sequence (from jovial through amorous and ecstatic to gloomy and sorrowful), but Berg incorporates his and Fuchs-Robettin's initials into the melodies and ties the metronome markings to numerological associations with their names. The sixth movement's quotation of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is a clear reference to illicit love. The first movement, though freely atonal, lives up to its designation of Allegretto gioviale; it's a short, perky piece. Things become quieter and more intimate with the sensuous Andante amoroso, although the mood is still sometimes rather capricious, despite an elegiac interlude at its center. Intensity builds with the Allegro misterioso, which opens with nocturnal insect music, liberally employing pizzicato and other effects. This is, effectively, the work's scherzo movement, and at its center is a Trio estatico -- still keeping a fairly quick tempo, but now using mostly conventional bowing for longer-lined phrases. The scherzo music reappears, running in reverse to the movement's end. The fourth movement, Adagio appassionato, forms the quartet's emotional center, with something tense and foreboding about much of the music's passion. A thrashing, dissonant climax gives way to a long passage of relative, but not quite settled, repose. The ensuing Presto delirando-Tenebroso alternates frantic music with quiet, dark, tense passages. The concluding Largo desolato maintains these moods at a much slower tempo, the music gradually dying away. [www.allmusic.com] Original Audio: https://youtu.be/uYIMRXkyJ10
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Alban Berg - Nine Short Pieces (1905-1908)

Alban Berg - Nine Short Pieces (1905-1908)

Alban Berg - Nine Short Pieces (1905-1908)
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
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Alban Berg - Wozzeck (ópera completa, subtítulos en español)

Alban Berg - Wozzeck (ópera completa, subtítulos en español)

Alban Berg - Wozzeck (ópera completa, subtítulos en español)
Music and libretto by Alban Berg, after the play by Georg Büchner Wozzeck: Toni Blankenheim Marie: Sena Jurinac Drum Major: Richard Cassilly Andres: Peter Haage Captain: Gerhard Unger Doctor: Hans Sotin Workman I: Kurt Moll Workman II: Franz Grundheber Idiot: Kurt Marschner Margret: Elisabeth Steiner Marie's son: Martina Schumacher The Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra The Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera Conducted by Bruno Maderna Directed for television by Joachim Hess Set design: Herbert Kirchhoff Costumes: Helmut Jürgens Recorded 1970, Hamburg State Opera If you have a copyright concern, please send me a message before submitting a report to Youtube, I will remove the uploads immediately. Thank you.
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Alban Berg - Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) [Score-Video]

Alban Berg - Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) [Score-Video]

Alban Berg - Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) [Score-Video]
Alban Berg - Vier Stücke (Four Pieces) for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) Alban Berg's Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) are the composer's only true miniatures. Many musicologists and biographers date these pieces from the spring of 1913, but according to Berg's wife, they were completed in June --a n important distinction, since the latter was the month of Berg's fateful meeting with his former teacher, Arnold Schoenberg. Musicologists have documented Berg's trip to Berlin in 1913, which included a traumatic encounter with Schoenberg. It is presumed that Schoenberg roundly criticized his slavish disciple, attempting to discourage him from composing songs and small-scale works, and encouraging him toward extended instrumental composition. Musicologist Brian Archibald has remarked that Schoenberg likely delivered some "strong criticism of Berg's recent work, and possibly even of his personality." Schoenberg's harsh rebuke of Berg may indeed have been triggered by Berg's Op. 5 miniatures. Archibald notes the irony in Schoenberg's attack on Berg in light of the fact that Berg's Four Pieces were strongly influenced by Schoenberg's own set of miniatures, the Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911). Berg's fellow Schoenberg pupil, Anton Webern, also wrote a number of miniatures, and indeed his music became best-known for its concise expressivity, its cool character, angular melodies, and pointillistic texture. In contrast, Berg's miniatures -- and indeed, his music in general -- are decidedly more Romantic in gesture, texture, and timbre. The Four Pieces are very brief and complex; Berg abandons motivic connections in favor of deep structural relationships beneath a perpetually moving surface. As with most of Berg's early works, there is a preponderance of quartal and whole-tone harmonies; like the String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910), the Four Pieces undergo constant changes in tempi, dynamics, and articulation according to Berg's intricate instructions (which sometimes change from beat to beat). The first and last of the Four Pieces are the longest, flanking a slow second piece and a scherzo. The Four Pieces were not performed until 1919, when they received their premier, despite Schoenberg's earlier admonishments, at a meeting of Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna. -Description by Alexander Carpenter Support this YouTube Channel: https://www.patreon.com/georgengianopoulos
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Alban Berg - Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel - Shaham, Jansons, BRSO 2014

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel - Shaham, Jansons, BRSO 2014

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel - Shaham, Jansons, BRSO 2014
Classical Music
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Alban Berg Lulu Suite

Alban Berg Lulu Suite

Alban Berg Lulu Suite
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 movements that the music for the concert suite was drawn. It is in five movements […] In the Lulu Suite, listeners hear music concerning a broad range of characters. The opening setting concerns Alwa, one of Lulu's many lovers. His father is Doctor Schoen, to whom the main character delivers her Lied der Lulu in Act II of the opera and in the third movement of the concert suite. In the fifth movement, the soprano also performs a brief excerpt from the role of Countess Geschwitz, another fatality to Lulu's charms. The orchestral interludes include music set in Paris and the East Side of London, where Jack the Ripper murders Lulu. The concert suite also features different musical forms, including a rondo and a set of variations. There is a lot to hear in this suite, making it something more than a contracted showcase intended to get an audience to the actual opera. It is an outstanding work in its own right. [...] John Keillor http://www.allmusic.com/composition/lulu-suite-5-symphonic-pieces-from-the-opera-for-soprano-orchestra-lulu-symphonie-mc0002443777
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Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Wozzeck
Frankfurter Museumsorchester, director: Sylvain Cambreling, Wozzeck: Dale Duesing, Marie: Kristine Ciesinski
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Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto Kammerkonzert

Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto Kammerkonzert

Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto Kammerkonzert
The Kammerkonzert für Klavier und Geige mit 13 Bläsern (Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments) is a piece of chamber music composed by Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1923 and 1925. The short score was completed on 9 February 1925; the full score was finished on 23 July 1925. The work was premiered on 19 March 1927.
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Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Wozzeck
Accentus Music - new on DVD and Blu-ray - June 2016: The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism. His nightmarishly radical production is inspired by puppet theatre. Christian Gerhaher’s role début as Wozzeck can only be described as sensational: his capacity for vocal and dramatic subtlety is simply breath-taking. At the rostrum of the Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi explores both the expressionistic and the more intimate aspects, reminiscent of chamber music, in Berg’s seminal score. Opera in three acts (15 scenes) after Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck” Fabio Luisi, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Stage Director Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck) Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
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Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn
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Alban Berg LULU “INTERLUDE：Film Music” for Two Pianos

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Hurricane Irma blasts Cuba after leveling Caribbean islands

Edit CNN 09 Sep 2017

Caibarien, Cuba (CNN)Hurricane Irma slammed northern Cuba on Saturday, continuing its path of devastation through the Caribbean towards the US state of Florida. A string of small islands to the east have been left reeling in the wake of the massive hurricane, which strengthened to a Category 5 storm as it made landfall in Cuba overnight, before being slightly downgraded to a Category 4 storm early Saturday ... Barbuda and Anguilla, St ... St....

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Iraqi forces kill 6 suicide bombers in operation in eastern Iraq

Edit Xinhua 09 Sep 2017

BAQUBA, Iraq, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces on Saturday killed six suicide bombers during an operation to hunt down Islamic State (IS) militants near the Iraqi-Iranian border in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said ... Gen. Mezhir al-Azzawi told Xinhua ... On Aug ... ....

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World News. Sat, 09 Sep 2017. AFP. Miami. Florida has ordered 5.6 million people to evacuate as massive Hurricane Irma menaces the southeastern US state, according to its Division of Emergency Management ... ....

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Hurricane Jose: storm 'almost category five' as it follows Irma's destructive path

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Pierre Berg? Businessman, Fashion Tycoon, Friend of Morocco Dies at 86

Edit MENA FN 09 Sep 2017

Rabat ? French businessman and fashion tycoon Pierre Berg? died on Friday, Sept. 8 following a long illness. The Yves Saint-Laurent brand co-founder was known for his love of Mo... ....

Life father, like son: It's a family affair at this weekend's Ironman

Edit Times Free Press 09 Sep 2017

Rudy Von Berg has been chasing his father's legacy for much of his life, and this weekend, the Von Berg family will look to make its mark on the world triathlon stage. Rodolphe Von Berg Sr., 60, and 23-year-old Rodolphe Von Berg Jr ... Von Berg Jr ... Growing up as an active athlete in Belgium — he once passed up a chance to compete in the Winter Olympics to train as a paratrooper in the Belgian armed forces — Von Berg Sr....

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France mourns man behind YSL fashion empire

Edit Belfast Telegraph 09 Sep 2017

Pierre Berge, an influential French businessman, philanthropist and gay rights activist who helped build the fashion empire of his ......

Front-footing contested tax positions inevitable in New Zealand, expert says

Edit Stuff 09 Sep 2017

Staples Rodway taxation services senior manager Maurits van den Berg said it was inevitable a similar regime would migrate to New Zealand ... Van den Berg, a former IRD employee, said compelling businesses to dob in their own contentious tax positions would be a shift from "running a gauntlet" of wondering whether IRD would launch an investigation or not....

Century's emergency plan pays off

Edit Post-Bulletin 09 Sep 2017

The Trojans did put together a touchdown drive late in the third quarter, on Nathan Berg's second TD pass of the game to tight end Carter Seymour, to take a 16-14 lead ... NP — Carter Seymour 9 pass from Nathan Berg (Wetchka kick), 1.33 ... NP — Seymour 29 pass from Berg (kick failed), 0.59 ... New Prague — Tyler Montanye 22-120, Eli Parker 6-13, Connor Scharf 4-10, Nathan Berg 5-(-1)....

Life Story: Marika Begg's journey from Crete to Christchurch for love

Edit Stuff 09 Sep 2017

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Edit Rutland Herald 09 Sep 2017

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Edit Rutland Herald 09 Sep 2017

The Vermont Supreme Court threw out another guilty plea this week in the first decision to cite a precedent it set last month in a Rutland case ... Gabree, then 27 and living in St. Albans, pleaded guilty in 2014 to two charges of grossly negligent operation with death resulting in a 2012 crash that killed Edmund and Margaret Moran in North Troy ... Gabree’s plea was part of a deal that resulted in a sentence of six to 15 years in prison ... ....

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Edit The Buffalo News 09 Sep 2017

... Kathleen (Timothy) Marshall, Joseph Orsolits and the late Nancy (David) McCracken; cherished uncle of Kevin McCracken, Molly (Stephen) Pont, Chrissy (Michael) Berges, Joseph, Sara Orsolits and Katie Marshall....

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Edit Yahoo Daily News 09 Sep 2017

PARIS (AP) — Mario Balotelli scored twice as Nice gave Riviera rival Monaco its first defeat 4-0 and Paris Saint-Germain an edge in the French league standings on Saturday ... It was titleholder Monaco's first loss since December ... 3 IN A ROW FOR CAEN ... KAKUTA ON TARGET ... Nantes extended its unbeaten run to three matches by beating Montpellier 1-0, and Alban Lafont delivered another man-of-the-match performance as Toulouse drew at Troyes 0-0 ... ....

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Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]

Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969

Renee Fleming -Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg

Alban Berg - Three Orchestral Pieces, I

Jessye Norman; "Five Peter Altenberg Songs"; Alban Berg

Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]

Alban Berg - Nine Short Pieces (1905-1908)

Alban Berg - Wozzeck (ópera completa, subtítulos en español)

Alban Berg - Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) [Score-Video]

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel - Shaham, Jansons, BRSO 2014

Alban Berg Lulu Suite

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto Kammerkonzert

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn

Alban Berg LULU “INTERLUDE：Film Music” for Two Pianos

Diarthrosis c n couvelis χ ν κουβελης music Alban Berg

Alban Berg LULU_Part2 act2-2

Alban Berg LULU_Part2 act2-2

Alban Berg

ALBUMS

Born: 1885-02-09

Died: 1935-12-24

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]

Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969

Renee Fleming -Altenberg lieder- Alban Berg

Alban Berg - Three Orchestral Pieces, I

Jessye Norman; "Five Peter Altenberg Songs"; Alban Berg

Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]

Alban Berg - Nine Short Pieces (1905-1908)

Alban Berg - Wozzeck (ópera completa, subtítulos en español)

Alban Berg - Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) [Score-Video]

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel - Shaham, Jansons, BRSO 2014

Alban Berg Lulu Suite

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Alban Berg - Chamber Concerto Kammerkonzert

Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn

Alban Berg LULU “INTERLUDE：Film Music” for Two Pianos

Diarthrosis c n couvelis χ ν κουβελης music Alban Berg

Alban Berg LULU_Part2 act2-2

Alban Berg LULU_Part2 act2-2

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Alban Berg: Wozzeck "Interlude"

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder op.4 (1912)

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

Alban Berg - Five Orchestral Songs "Altemberg-Lieder" [1/5]

Jessye Norman; "Jugendlieder"; (Selections); Alban Berg

Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, op.6 (1914/1915) Abbado Live 1969