The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck
George Perleis a distinguished composer and Professor Emeritus of Music at the City University of New York. His books includeSerial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern(Sixth Edition, California, 1991);The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 1,Wozzeck(California, 1980) and Volume 2,Lulu(California, 1985); andThe Listening Composer(California, 1990). He has been a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.