Pro mundo-pro domo : the writings of Alban Berg / Alban Berg ; edited with commentaries by Bryan R. Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Contributor:

Simms, Bryan R.

Standardized Title:

Works. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Berg, Alban.

Composers--Austria.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early twentieth century. Berg is now recognized as a classic composer of the modern period, best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu. Berg, Anton Webern, and their teacher Arnold Schoenberg constitute the ""Second Viennese School"" which played a major role in the transformation of serious music as it entered the modern period. Berg w

Contents:

Cover; Pro Mundo-Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE; Introduction; THE SCHOENBERG GUIDES; Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder: Guide; Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony, Op. 9: Thematic Analysis; Pelleas and Melisande (after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck). Symphonic Poem for Orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 5: Thematic Analysis; Pelleas and Melisande (after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck). Symphonic Poem for Orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 5: Brief Thematic Analysis; Commentary on the Schoenberg Guides

ESSAYS, LECTURES, AND ANALYSESThe Musical Impotence of Hans Pfitzner's Die neue Ästhetik; Vienna's Music Criticism: Two Feuilletons; The Musical Forms in My Opera Wozzeck; Why Is Schoenberg's Music So Difficult to Understand?; Alban Berg's Chamber Concerto: An Open Letter; Committed Response to a Noncommittal Survey; Two Analyses of the Lyric Suite; Composition with Twelve Tones; Nine Pages on the Lyric Suite; Introducing Ernst Krenek; The "Problem of Opera"; Pro Mundo; Pro Domo; The Voice in Opera; What Is Atonal? A Dialogue; Lecture on Wozzeck : The "Atonal Opera"; Credo

A Few Remarks on Staging the Opera WozzeckCommemorative Address for Emil Hertzka; Commentary on Essays, Lectures, and Analyses; TRIBUTES; The Teacher; On Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra; On the Hundredth Anniversary of Franz Schubert's Death; For Adolf Loos: Double Acrostic Distichs for the Tenth of December; On Winfried Zillig; To Karl Kraus; Handel and Bach; Faith, Hope, and Love: For Schoenberg's Sixtieth Birthday; Commentary on Tributes; INTERVIEWS; With the Composer of Wozzeck : A Conversation with Alban Berg, by Carl Marilaun; A Chat with Alban Berg, by Oskar Baum

Conversation with Alban Berg: Impressions from a Wozzeck Performance in Leningrad, by "Iron"Berg's Wozzeck in Leningrad: Remarks by the Composer; A Conversation with Alban Berg, by Oskar Jancke; Critique of the Critique: Conversation with Alban Berg and Clemens Krauss, by Otto König; "We Spoke Today with Alban Berg . . ."; Commentary on Interviews; FICTIONAL WORKS; Hanna; A Mining Drama; Night (Nocturne): Preliminary Plan, Notes for the Monodrama; Commentary on Fictional Works; MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS; An Appeal for Schoenberg; On Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Two Prospectuses for the Society for Private Musical PerformancesLetter from Vienna; Questions about Jazz; Opera Theater; On Reopening the Vienna Volksoper; Should Wagner Stagings Be Modernized?; Composition with Twelve-Tone Rows; Commentary on Miscellaneous Writings; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-065674-3

0-19-026821-2

0-19-999757-8