Alban Berg
By: Willi Reich ; translated by Cornelius Cardew
Publisher: Vienna House
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 239
Notes: Bibliography: p. [233]
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I : The Life of Berg; title: Childhood and Period of Study; title: First Interlude : The Teacher's Testimonial; title: Last Years of Peace, and the Time of the First World War; title: Second Interlude : The Society for Musical Private Performances; title: From the End of the War to the Premiere of Wozzeck; title: Third Interlude : The "Problem of Opera"; title: The Peak of his Life; title: Fourth Interlude : Commemorative Address for Emil Hertzka; title: The Last Years; title: Part II : The Work; title: Early Works; title: Three Orchestral Pieces, Opus 6; title: Wozzeck; title: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with Thirteen Wind Instruments; title: Lyric Suite for String Quartet; title: Der Wein : Concert Aria with Orchestra; title: Lulu; title: Violin Concerto; title: Part III : Three Articles by Berg; title: Why is Schonberg's Music so Difficult to Understand?; title: The Musical Impotence of Hans Pfitzner's "New Aesthetic"; title: Two Feuilletons : a Contribution to the Topic "Schoenberg and Music Criticism".