jan 1, 1925 - Wozzeck
Description:
the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.Berg’s Wozzeck
1. Because they were timely, the operas discussed earlier fell out of the repertory as time moved on.
2. Berg’s Wozzeck has had the best staying power of the German operas from the 1920s.
3. Wozzeck combines elements of Romanticism and Expressionism with ideas from the 1920s: post-war disillusionment, irony, political critique, archaic musical forms, and popular culture.
4. Atonal and disturbing, the work was nonetheless an international success.
5. The orchestral writing is colorful and inventive and includes prominent leitmotifs.
6. Some of the popular idioms used include folk songs, marches, and waltzes.
7. Berg also draws on instrumental genres and forms, such as pavane, gavotte, etc., but they do not necessarily fit classic definitions.
8. As in the Lyric Suite, hidden devices carry personal meanings in the opera.
9. Atonal music is a representational device for physical or psychological abnormality.
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Date:
jan 1, 1925
Now
~ 100 years ago