Berg Companion [Hardcover]

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.Editor's Introduction - Martin Esslin: Fin de Siecle Vienna - Joan Allen Smith: Reminiscences - THE LIEDER - Mark DeVoto: Berg's development as a song writer - Stephen Kett: Four Songs Op.2; Berg's conservative revolution - THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC - Bruce Archibald: Berg's development as an instrumental composer - Michael Taylor: Three Pieces Op.6 no.1 - Brenda Dalen: The Chamber Concerto Sketches - Douglas Jarman: Alban Berg, Wilhelm Fliess and the secret programme of the Violin Concerto - THE OPERAS - Derrick Puffett: Berg and German opera - Christopher Hailey: Alban Berg and the Viennese Dichotomy - Patricia Hall: The Lulu sketches - Friedrich Cerha: Lulu Act III; afterthoughts - Selected bibliography - IndexDOUGLAS 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.