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Composer

Alban Berg

Austrian composer (1885–1935)

1885–1935

36 works in the index

Born
1885
Died
1935
Birthplace
Vienna
Citizenship / historical state
Cisleithania
Period (estimated from birth year)
Modern

Biography

Alban Berg, a member of the “Second Viennese School” of composers, combined romanticism with modernist idioms in a very personal way. The romantic component was more pronounced than some of his modernist colleagues would have liked: they considered his work in such ways a throwback. Musicologist Douglas Jarman wrote in 1991 that the romantic element, especially the “emotional intensity and apparent spontaneity” of Berg’s music, helped make him the most popular of the members of the Second Viennese School, but that it is also responsible for his works' never having received the “detailed analytical attention” that critics and scholars have showered upon those of his colleagues, Schoenberg and Webern. Berg is the composer, among much else, of the opera Lulu (for which he also created the libretto.) Strictly speaking, he is the composer of most of Lulu. He died in 1935 before completing this score. The form in which we now know the Third Act is due in part to the work of Friedrich Cerha.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Piano, Voice, Trombone, Clarinet, harpsichord
Genres represented
Classical
Works with composition dates
11 of 36

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Piano Sonata, op. 1: Mäßig bewegt - Langsames Tempo - Quasi Adagio 1907–1909?IMSLP op. 1— Piano, harpsichordClassical 5
Schliesse mir die Augen beide 1900, 1925IMSLP —— VoiceClassical 7
Violinkonzert 1935IMSLP —— —Classical 6
Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano op. 5 — op. 5— PianoClassical 4
Sieben frühe Lieder: III. Die Nachtigall 1907IMSLP —— —Classical 5
3 Orchesterstücke, Op.6 1914-15IMSLP Op.6— OrchestraClassical 3
Wozzeck — —— Trombone, TubaClassical 3
Drei Orchesterstucke 1914-15IMSLP —— TromboneClassical 4
4 Gesänge 1910IMSLP —— voice pianoClassical 2
Lyrische Suite 1925-6IMSLP —— —Classical 2
5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg 1911-12IMSLP —— —Classical 2
String Quartet, Op. 3 1910IMSLP Op. 3— —Classical 2
4 Stücke, Op.5 1913 MayIMSLP Op.5— —Classical 2
Cornet Voluntary — —— Organ— 2
A Sea Song from the Shore — —— Voice— 2
Piano Sonata, Op.1 — Op.1— —— —
Der Hirt — —— Piano, Low Voice— —
Berg: Piano Sonata op. 1 — op. 1— —— —
Menuett in F — —— Piano, Clarinet— —
The Crocodile — —— Voice— 1
The Sugarplum Tree — —— Voice— 1
Violin Concerto — —— —Classical —
Lulu -1. Akt, 1. Szene- — —— —Classical —
Lulu -2. Akt, 1. Szene- — —— —Classical —
Lulu -2. Akt, 2. Szene- — —— —Classical —
Wozzeck, Opus 7 — Opus 7— ClarinetClassical 8
Lulu — —— TromboneClassical —
Die Nachtigall — —— —— —
Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 — Op. 1B minor —— —
A Crown Of Dreams (Traumgekront) — —— —Classical —
Indoors (Im Zimmer) — —— —Classical —
Lovers' Ode (Liebesode) — —— —Classical —
Night (Nacht) — —— —Classical —
Song Amongst The Reeds (Schilflied) — —— —Classical —
Summer Days (Sommertage) — —— —Classical —
The Nightingale (Die Nachtigall) — —— —— —

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 37101072. Portrait: Max Fenichel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.