Alban Berg. /
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| Author / Creator: | Reich, Willi, 1898-1980. |
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| Edition: | [1st American ed.]. |
| Imprint: | New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1965] |
| Description: | 239 pages : illustrations, portraits, pls., music, facsimiles ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English German |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2074214 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I : The Life of Berg
- Childhood and Period of Study
- First Interlude : The Teacher's Testimonial
- Last Years of Peace, and the Time of the First World War
- Second Interlude : The Society for Musical Private Performances
- From the End of the War to the Premiere of Wozzeck
- Third Interlude : The "Problem of Opera"
- The Peak of his Life
- Fourth Interlude : Commemorative Address for Emil Hertzka
- The Last Years
- Part II : The Work
- Early Works
- Three Orchestral Pieces, Opus 6
- Wozzeck
- Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with Thirteen Wind Instruments
- Lyric Suite for String Quartet
- Der Wein : Concert Aria with Orchestra
- Lulu
- Violin Concerto
- Part III : Three Articles by Berg
- Why is Schönberg's Music so Difficult to Understand?
- The Musical Impotence of Hans Pfitzner's "New Aesthetic"
- Two Feuilletons : a Contribution to the Topic "Schoenberg and Music Criticism."