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Alban Berg: a Biography

Karen Monson

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Description:Alban Berg was the one member of the New Viennese School of composers to achieve success in his lifetime. Thanks to a wealth of recent research, Karen Monson has been able to give a detailed analysis of his music, and a penetrating picture of his private life. She tells us of his early years studying with Arnold Schönberg and the uproar caused by his first compositions; his marriage to Helene Nahowski, who gave up the possibility of a musical career to devote all her energies to her husband’s interests; his early struggles and the eventual recognition of the twelve-tone technique with the success of his opera Wozzeck; his ten-year love affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robertin, which explodes the popular belief in his perfect marriage; his obsession with Hanna and her children throughout the writing of the Lyric Suite and his second opera, Lulu; his death in 1935 before Lulu was completed.This portrait also presents an intriguing picture of Vienna at the time when it was the cultural centre of Europe, where a closely-knit group of musicians and other artists flourished in a creative atmosphere.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alban Berg: a Biography. To get started finding Alban Berg: a Biography, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 396

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Macdonald and Jane’s, London

Release: 1980

ISBN: 0354044648

Description: Alban Berg was the one member of the New Viennese School of composers to achieve success in his lifetime. Thanks to a wealth of recent research, Karen Monson has been able to give a detailed analysis of his music, and a penetrating picture of his private life. She tells us of his early years studying with Arnold Schönberg and the uproar caused by his first compositions; his marriage to Helene Nahowski, who gave up the possibility of a musical career to devote all her energies to her husband’s interests; his early struggles and the eventual recognition of the twelve-tone technique with the success of his opera Wozzeck; his ten-year love affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robertin, which explodes the popular belief in his perfect marriage; his obsession with Hanna and her children throughout the writing of the Lyric Suite and his second opera, Lulu; his death in 1935 before Lulu was completed.This portrait also presents an intriguing picture of Vienna at the time when it was the cultural centre of Europe, where a closely-knit group of musicians and other artists flourished in a creative atmosphere.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alban Berg: a Biography. To get started finding Alban Berg: a Biography, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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