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Sonata Op. 1Joel Parker & Alban Berg

Schließe mir die Augen beideAlban Berg, Luke Spence & Andrew Welch

Sieben frühe Lieder: LiebesodeAlban Berg, Luke Spence & Andrew Welch

Listen to Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier by Alban Berg, Richard Haynes & Misa Yamamoto, see lyrics, music video & more!

Vier Stücke für Klarinette und KlavierAlban Berg, Richard Haynes & Misa Yamamoto

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Listen to Berg: Lulu Suite - Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op. 43b - Webern: Im Sommerwind by Eugene Ormandy, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg & The Philadelphia Orchestra

ALBUMBerg: Lulu Suite - Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op. 43b - Webern: Im SommerwindEugene Ormandy, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg & The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Listen to Christian Ferras, Vol. 2 by Christian Ferras

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Listen to String Quartets by Minetti Quartet, Maria Ehmer, Anna Knopp, Milan Milojicic & Leonhard Roczek

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Listen to SONUS by Pierre Pichler & Albert Frantz

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Listen to Transfigurations: Schönberg - Berg by Het Collectief

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Listen to Berg: String Quartet – Webern: Langsamer Satz – Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 by Heath Quartet

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Listen to Schoenberg, Berg & Skalkottas: Works by Hermann Scherchen

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Listen to Vienna Calling by Anthony Pike & John Lenehan

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ALBUMNocturnal VariationsRuby Hughes & Joseph Middleton

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ALBUMAlban Berg: JugendliederJulia Bentley & Kuang-Hao Huang

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ALBUMBerg & Weigl: String QuartetsArtis Quartet

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ALBUMHindemith: Symphony in B-Flat Major & The 4 Temperaments - Berg: Chamber ConcertoBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Hindemith

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ALBUMNew Colours of the PastDuo Aliada

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ALBUMJourneys and DreamsKatrin Targo & Ekaterina Nokkert

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ALBUMBerg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber MusicBelcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone & António Meneses

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About Alban Berg

Hometown

Vienna, Austria

Born

1885

Genre

Classical

Born in Vienna in 1885, Alban Berg was at first drawn more to literature than to music, but this changed during his teenage years, and in 1904 he began a six-year period of private composition study with Arnold Schoenberg. The older composer’s teaching skills and powerful personality propelled Berg toward early mastery of a technically elaborate and hyper-expressive modernist idiom. Some orchestral songs setting texts by local poet Peter Altenberg were hissed off the concert platform in Vienna in 1913, but Berg recovered from this traumatic experience to complete his large-scale and highly dramatic Three Pieces for Orchestra in 1915. For the next seven years, with interruptions due to wartime army service, Berg worked on his opera Wozzeck; after its 1925 Berlin premiere it was widely performed in Germany, and was soon recognized as a modern masterpiece. Beginning with the Lyric Suite for string quartet (1926), Berg included Schoenberg’s 12-note method of musical construction as part of his technical armory, adapting it in his own individual and expressive way. In 1935, his second opera, Lulu, was still unfinished when the sudden death of Manon Gropius, the young daughter of Mahler’s widow, Alma, inspired Berg to compose and complete a Violin Concerto in her memory. A few months later Berg himself died from blood poisoning caused by an insect bite, leaving Lulu incomplete.