Hailey Alban Berg and His World

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3647-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: The Bard Music Festival

An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composer

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hailey, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Permissions and Credits xv

Berg's Worlds 3

CHRISTOPHER HAILEY

Hermann Watznauer's Biography of Alban Berg 33

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY NICK CHADWICK

A Descriptive Overview of Berg's Night/Nocturne 91

INTRODUCTION BY REGINA BUSCH

TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND WITH COMMENTARY BY CHRISTOPHER HAILEY

Berg and the Orchestra 133

ANTONY BEAUMONT

". deinen Wuchs wie Musik": Portraits, Identities, and 163

the Dynamics of Seeing in Berg's Operatic Sphere

SHERRY D. LEE

"Remembrance of things that are to come": Some Reflections 195

on Berg's Palindromes

DOUGLAS JARMAN

1934, Alban Berg, and the Shadow of Politics: Documents 223

of a Troubled Year

INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATIONS, AND COMMENTARY BY MARGARET NOTLEY

Alban Berg zum Gedenken: The Berg Memorial Issue of 269

23: A Viennese Music Journal

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY MARK DEVOTO

Alban Berg and the Memory of Modernism 299

LEON BOTSTEIN

Index 345

Notes on the Contributors 359

Über Autor(innen)

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.