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Berg Companion

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Douglas Jarman
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Man and his Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii
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    2. Berg’s Vienna

      • Martin Esslin
      Pages 1-12

    3. Berg’s Character Remembered

      • Joan Allen Smith
      Pages 13-32

  3. The Songs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Berg the Composer of Songs

      • Mark Devoto
      Pages 35-66

    3. A Conservative Revolution: The Music of the Four Songs Op. 2

      • Stephen W. Kett
      Pages 67-87

  5. The Operas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Berg and German Opera

      • Derrick Puffett
      Pages 197-219

    3. Between Instinct and Reflection: Berg, Opera and the Viennese Dichotomy

      • Christopher Hailey
      Pages 221-234

    4. The Sketches for Lulu

      • Patricia Hall
      Pages 235-259

    5. Some Further Notes on My Realization of Act III of Lulu

      • Friedrich Cerha
      Pages 261-267

    6. The First Four Notes of Lulu

      • George Perle
      Pages 269-289

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 291-301
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About this book

By bringing together the most recent scholarship, this book sheds new light on Berg's life and music. The three main sections are each devoted to a particular genre. The first essay in each section surveys Berg's development within the genre concerned, whilst the subsequent chapters discuss particular works in more detail. An introductory section to the book sets Berg's music in the context of other artistic and musical developments of the period from 1890 to the 1930s.

About the authors

DOUGLAS JARMAN is Principal Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. A member of the Board of Directors of the International Alban Society and editor of the forthcoming Concerto volume of the Alban Berg Gesamtausgabe, he is author of The Music of Alban Berg, Kurt Weil; an Illustrated Biography, and a forthcoming monograph on Wozzeck.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Berg Companion

  • Editors: Douglas Jarman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09056-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-42718-7Published: 25 February 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09058-7Published: 01 January 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09056-3Published: 26 February 1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 301

  • Topics: Music, Literature, general

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