The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I
Subtitle: Wozzeck
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 4, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780520066175
Subjects: Individual artists; Opera; Reference; Performing Arts; Music; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; General; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Opera
First sentence: characteristic aspects of Mahler's style which play such an important role in the Three Pieces persistently reappear in Berg's work to the end of his life: in both Lulu and the Violin Concerto, his last compositions, there are episodes that still stand close to the Three Pieces. If the Three Pieces is, in a sense, retrogressive, coming as it does after Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Erwartung, and Pierrot lunaire, and after Berg's own Altenberg Lieder and the clarinet and piano pieces, it was nevertheless essential preparation for the composition of Wozzeck.