Berg / Bryan Simms, Charlotte Erwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Bryan R., author.

Erwin, Charlotte Elizabeth, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Master musicians series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Berg, Alban.

Composers--Austria--Biography.

Composers.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 514 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This book contains a new study of the life and works of the composer Alban Berg (1885-1935). The major events in his life are recounted, based on a reassessment of archival documents, correspondence, and the recollections of those who knew him. His relationship with other modernists in music, art, and literature-including Arnold Schoenberg, Karl Kraus, and Alma Mahler-Werfel-is traced. The role played in Berg's personal and artistic life by his wife, Helene, is emphasized, and her management of his legacy-often controversial-for the forty years following his death is explored. The book contains a close study of each of Berg's major musical works, including his operas Wozzeck and Lulu"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Two Viennese Families

Berg's Early Life

The Specter of III Health

The Marie Scheuchl Affair

The Nahowski Family

Helene Nahowski and Paul Kammerer

Berg's Courtship of Helene Nahowski

2. Berg's Musical Apprenticeship, 1899

1911

Studies with Schoenberg

Berg's Early Songs

Seven Early Songs (1907)

Four Songs, Op. 2

Music for Piano

Piano Sonata, Op. 1

String Quartet, Op. 3

3. A Struggle for Recognition, 1911

15

Before the War: 1911

14

Berg's Work for Schoenberg

The Scandal Concert

Berg as Writer

Five Orchestral Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 (1912)

Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913)

Three Orchestra Pieces, Op. 6 (1914

15)

4. The War and Its Aftermath, 1914-20

Patriotic Enthusiasm

Berg's Conscription

Superstition and Pseudo-Science

Postwar Burdens

A Change of Profession

5. Wozzeck

Operatic Plans and Uncertainties

From Play to Libretto

A Wozzeck Chronology

The Music of Wozzeck

Wozzeck on Stage

6. International Acclaim, 1923-25

Wozzeck Triumphant

The Continuing Quest for Health

New Directions in Postwar Music: Neoclassicism and Dodecaphony

Chamber Concerto

7. Secret Programs with Twelve Tones, 1925

27

The Hanna Fuchs Affair

A Return to Composing

Lyric Suite for String Quartet

8. The Celebrated Composer, 1928-34

Prerogatives of Success

Summer Retreats and Family Entanglements

Flight from Reality

Berg's Music and the Nazi Threat

A Musical Digression: Der Wein

9. Lulu

The Search for Lulu

Wedekind's Lulu Plays

Berg's Libretto for Lulu

A Chronology of Composition

The Music of Lulu

Prospects for Staging

Symphonic Pieces from the Opera Lulu

10. Berg's Final Year, 1935

Berg's Financial Crisis

Political Turmoil and Austrofascism

The Violin Concerto

Berg's Final Illness

11. Helene Berg and the Management of Berg's Legacy, 1936-76

The Completion of Lulu

Bereavement, Grief, and Helene Berg's "Eternal Marriage"

Helene Berg's Life under the Nazis, 1938

45

Berg's Musical Manuscripts and Letters

Toward a Berg Biography

The Alban Berg Foundation

Helene Berg's Last Years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-504) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Simms, Bryan R. Berg.

ISBN:

9780190931445

0190931442

OCLC:

1161997885