Alban Berg
Subtitle: Master of the Smallest Link
Contributors: Christopher Hailey (Translator); Juliane Brand (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780521338844
Subjects: Composers & musicians; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Composers & Musicians - General; Music Of The 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Music/Songbooks; Biography/Autobiography; Austria; Criticism and interpretation; Individual Composer & Musician; Berg, Alban, --1885-1935--Criticism and inter; Berg, Alban,--1885-1935--Criticism and interpretation; Biography & Autobiography-Composers & Musicians - General; Music / General; 1885-1935; Berg, Alban,
First sentence: Familiar from childhood is the last movement of Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, that F # minor piece in which one instrument after another ceases to play and departs, until finally only two violins remain to extinguish the light.