Gathers letters from the twenty-five year correspondence of the two composers, student and teacher, and provides background information on their lives and careers

The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters (English and German Edition)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

ALBAN BERG

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Adorno was twenty-one years old when he traveled to Vienna in March 1925 to study musical composition with Alban Berg. Twenty years later, Adorno wrote: "how much of my writing will remain is beyond my knowledge or my control, but there is one claim I wish to stake: that I understand the language of birds," It was no less than the desire to learn to speak this language that drew him to Berg. Adorno already knew what he wanted to drew to compose before he went to Berg, and the aim of his stay in Vienna and the following years was to learn to put this knowledge of musical composition into practice. His correspondence with Berg, who was soon to be world famous, is partly defined by his engagement with the compositional problems posed for the musical avant-garde by Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve-tone technique, for which Adorno was to become an advocate, not least in Vienna and through Berg. This correspondence documents how he wrote numerous essays on Berg, Webern and Schoenberg during this time, and tried in vain to establish a platform for the Second Viennese School against "moderated modernity" in the journal Anbruch, where he exerted considerable editorial influence. It also shows how much Adorno - continually admonished by Berg to focus only on his musical composition - strove to reconcile his academic duties and his literary and journalistic work with the constant which to do nothing more than compose.

Correspondence 1925-1935

Henri Lonitz

Wieland Hoban

Arts & Literature

Polity Press

Briefwechsel 1925 - 1935. Adorno / Berg.

Theodor W. Adorno

Suhrkamp

Wozzeck: Opera Libretto (Synopsis & Complete Text with Translation)

Arts & Photography

Music

Universal Edition

String Quartet, Op. 3

Unversal Editions

3 Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6

Lyrische Suite

Universal Editions

UE presents a new critical edition of Berg's Violin Concerto, which seeks to correct errors which have been incorporated in the score since its first publication. Carefully researched, this new definitive score is now the most accurate. Published in oversize (11" x 13") hardbound format. Dur.: 22'-25'

Violin Concerto (German Edition)

Theodore Presser

Berg's groundbreaking piano sonata built a bridge between the Romantic and the Contemporary. Berg poured so much of himself into the piece that he was unable to continue with successive movements, to which his then-teacher Arnold Schoenberg said, "Maybe [Berg] had said all lthat there was to say." With some trepidation and humility, Dejour has transcribed the Sonate successfully for guitar solo, with utmost care to respect the original. Watch and listen as Dejour plays his arrangement on YouTube.

Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (arr. for guitar)

Briefwechsel Alban Berg - Helene Berg Teil 2

Florian Noetzel / Ars Musica

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