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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
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- In full:
- Alban Maria Johannes Berg
- Died:
- December 24, 1935, Vienna (aged 50)
- Notable Works:
- “Chamber Concerto”
- “Five Orchestral Songs”
- “Lulu”
- “Wozzeck”
- Movement / Style:
- Expressionism
- Novembergruppe
Alban Berg (born February 9, 1885, Vienna, Austria—died December 24, 1935, Vienna) Austrian composer who wrote atonal and 12-tone compositions that remained true to late 19th-century Romanticism. He composed orchestral music (including Five Orchestral Songs, 1912), chamber music, songs, and two groundbreaking operas, Wozzeck (1925) and Lulu (1937). Apart from a few short musical trips abroad and annual summer sojourns in the Austrian Alps, Berg spent his life in the city of his birth. At first, the romantically inclined youth leaned toward a literary career. But, as in most Viennese middle-class homes, music was regularly played in his parents’ house, ...(100 of 1483 words)