Alban Berg and His World (eBook)

Christopher Hailey (Herausgeber)

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2010
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3647-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composerAlban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive nuance of late-Romantic tonal practice.The essays in this collection explore the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present newly translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era. Of particular significance are the first translations of Berg's newly discovered stage work Night (Nocturne), Hermann Watznauer's intimate account of Berg's early years, and the famous memorial issue of the music periodical 23. Contributors consider Berg's fascination with palindromes and mirror images and their relationship to notions of time and identity; the Viennese roots of his distinctive orchestral style; his links to such Viennese contemporaries as Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold; and his attempts to maneuver through the perilous shoals of gender, race, and fascist politics.The contributors are Antony Beaumont, Leon Botstein, Regina Busch, Nicholas Chadwick, Mark DeVoto, Douglas Jarman, Sherry Lee, and Margaret Notley.

Autor

Christopher Hailey is the author of a biography of Franz Schreker and an editor of the German and English editions of the Berg/Schoenberg correspondence. He has published editions of scores by Berg and Schreker and is a cotranslator of Theodor Adorno's biography of Berg.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2010
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alban Berg • Alma Mahler • Altenberg Lieder • Anton Webern • aphorism • Arnold Schoenberg • Arthur Schnitzler • Atonality • Austrian National Library • Bassoon • circle of fifths • Clarinet • Classicism • Composer • Der Wein • der Zwerg • Die Frau ohne Schatten • Die Gezeichneten • Die tote Stadt • Egon Schiele • Eighth note • Erich Kleiber • Erich Wolfgang Korngold • ernst krenek • Erwartung • Erwin Stein • evocation • Felix Mendelssohn • Film score • Folk music • for example • Frank Wedekind • Franz Liszt • Franz Schreker • Franz Werfel • Genre • Gerhart Hauptmann • Gustav Mahler • Hans Pfitzner • Harmonielehre • Haydn and Mozart • Hermann Scherchen • Hugo Wolf • Igor Stravinsky • Illustration • Johannes Brahms • Kapellmeister • Karl Kraus (writer) • Kindertotenlieder • Kurt Weill • Leitmotif • Leon Botstein • Leo Treitler • Libretto • Literature • Ludwig van Beethoven • Lyric Suite (Grieg) • Manon Gropius • Melodrama • modernism • Modernism (music) • Modernity • Monodrama • Moses und Aron • Music Is • Narcissism • newspaper • Oboe • Opera • orchestra • Orchestration • Oskar Kokoschka • Otto Klemperer • Otto Weininger • Palindrome • Parody • Paul Dukas • Paul Hindemith • Pelleas und Melisande (Schoenberg) • Peter Altenberg • Phrase (music) • Pierrot Lunaire • Quarter note • Richard Strauss • Richard Wagner • Schumann • sentimentality • Seven Early Songs (Berg) • Singing • Symphonic Poem • Theodor W. Adorno • The Orchestra • Timbre • tonality • tutti • Universal Edition • violin • Woyzeck • Wozzeck • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3647-6 / 1400836476
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3647-5 / 9781400836475