Alban Berg (1 gen 1885 anni – 1 gen 1935 anni)

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an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique.

Berg’s Twelve-Tone Romanticism
1. Berg served in World War I, and Wozzeck reflects something of his experiences.
3. While Berg undoubtedly followed in Schoenberg’s compositional footsteps, he might be the best candidate to be considered heir to Mahler. This is because his music contains aspects of Romanticism, including sensitivity.
4. Berg had a gift for dramatic music, which is demonstrated not only in operas but also
in instrumental works.
5. The Lyric Suite mixes atonality and twelve-tone technique.
6. The Lyric Suite has a hidden program that reveals the real dedicatee to have been Berg’s lover from 1925 to 1935.
7. With all of these expressions of love for Hanna Fuchs, Berg uses a Modernist work to
communicate Romantic feelings.
8. Berg’s final opera, Lulu, was suppressed by his wife. It is highly sexual in content, and
this may have embarrassed her. Berg did not finish the orchestration.
9. He finished the Violin Concerto.
a. Here Berg combined twelve-tone technique with more traditional approaches to melody and form.
b. He quotes a chorale, Es ist genug, which was harmonized in an unusual way by
Bach.

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