Слайд 2Alban Maria Johannes Berg
was an Austrian composer. He produced compositions that
combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.
Слайд 3Berg 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
Слайд 4Among 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 W. 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". The Piano Sonata is an example—the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.
Слайд 5In 1913, two of Berg's Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts
by Peter Altenberg (1912) were premièred in Vienna, conducted by Schoenberg in the infamous
Skandalkonzert.
Слайд 6From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and
during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera,
Wozzeck.
Слайд 7Opera was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in
1925. The opera is based on the drama Woyzeck, which was left incomplete by the German playwright Georg Büchner at his death.
Berg attended the first production in Vienna of Buchner's play on 5 May 1914, and knew at once that he wanted to base an opera on it.
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Today Wozzeck is seen as one of the century's most important
works.
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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.
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His works seen as more emotional than Schoenberg's. He have
preserved the Viennese tradition in his music.
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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.
Слайд 12 Complete list of the compositions of Alban Berg.
Schummerlose Nächte (Martin
Greif)
Jugendlieder (2), composed 1904–8, voice and piano, published 1985
Seven Early Songs, voice and piano, composed 1905–8, revised and orchestrated 1928
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (Theodor Storm), voice and piano, composed 1907, published in 1930 & 1955
An Leukon (Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim), voice and piano, composed 1908; published in 1937 & 1963 (Reich) & 1985 (UE) (2 versions exist: in G minor [1907]; in E minor [1908]
Frühe Klaviermusik, published 1989
Zwölf Variationen über ein eigenes Thema in C, piano, composed Nov. 8, 1908; published in 1957 & 1985
Слайд 13 An Leukon (Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim), voice and piano, composed 1908;
published in 1937 & 1963 (Reich) & 1985 (UE) (2 versions exist: in G minor [1907]; in E minor [1908]
Frühe Klaviermusik, published 1989
Zwölf Variationen über ein eigenes Thema in C, piano, composed Nov. 8, 1908; published in 1957 & 1985
Symphony and Passacaglia, fragment, composed 1913
Piano Sonata, Op. 1, composed 1907–8, published April 24, 1911
Vier Lieder, Op. 2, voice and piano, composed 1909–10, published 1910
Слайд 14String Quartet, Op. 3, composed 1910, published 1920
Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtkartentexten
von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4, soprano and orchestra, 1912 (Altenberg Lieder)
Vier Stücke, Op. 5, clarinet and piano, composed 1913, published 1920
Drei Stücke, Op. 6, orchestra, composed 1914–15
Wozzeck, Op. 7, composed 1914–22
Drei Bruchstücke aus ‘Wozzeck’, soprano and orchestra
Kammerkonzert, piano, violin, winds, composed 1923–5
Adagio, violin, clarinet and piano, arranged 1926 (arrangement of Kammerkonzert mvmt. 2)
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (Theodor Storm), voice and piano, composed 1925
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Lyric Suite, string quartet, composed 1925–6
Drei Sätze aus der Lyrischen Suite,
arranged for string orchestra, 1928
Der Wein (Charles Baudelaire), concert aria, soprano and orchestra, composed 1929
Four-part Canon Alban Berg an das Frankfurter Opernhaus, composed 1930
Lulu, composed 1929–35, orchestra part of Act 3 completed by Friedrich Cerha
Symphonische Stücke aus der Oper ‘Lulu’ (Lulu-Suite), soprano and orchestra, premièred under Kleiber in 1934
Violin Concerto, composed 1935
Vocal scores
Arrangement for string quartet, piano, and harmonium