Alban Berg and His World /

Alban Berg and His World / / ed. by Christopher Hailey.

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Alban 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 Viennes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Beaumont, Antony,
Botstein, Leon,
Busch, Regina,
Chadwick, Nick,
Devoto, Mark,
Hailey, Christopher,
Jarman, Douglas,
Lee, Sherry D.,
Notley, Margaret,
HerausgeberIn:
Hailey, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Permissions and Credits
  • Berg's Worlds
  • Hermann Watznauer's Biography of Alban Berg
  • A Descriptive Overview of Berg's Night (Nocturne)
  • Berg and the Orchestra
  • " . . . deinen Wuchs wie Musik": Portraits, Identities, and the Dynamics of Seeing in Berg's Operatic Sphere
  • "Remembrance of things that are to come": Some Reflections on Berg's Palindromes
  • 1934, Alban Berg, and the Shadow of Politics: Documents of a Troubled Year
  • Alban Berg zum Gedenken: The Berg Memorial Issue of 23: A Viennese Music Journal
  • Alban Berg and the Memory of Modernism
  • Index
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Backmatter

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