Paul Kammerer and Alban Berg: Rivals in Song

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-127
Author(s):  
Bryan R. Simms
Keyword(s):  
Alban Berg ◽  
Paul Kammerer

Alban Berg

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodor W. Adorno
Keyword(s):  
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Floros
Keyword(s):  
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Adhesion Strength ◽  
String Quartet ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Alban Berg ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Stefan George ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Parallel Texts

When Austrian composer Alban Berg was working on his opera Lulu, he wrote three Baudelaire songs as a Konzertaria entitled Der Wein. Premiered in 1930, Der Wein is a large-scale work for voice and orchestra. Berg uses a German translation by Stefan George, but the published score is in parallel texts, accommodating the French verse line. The chapter also considers a ‘hidden’ Baudelaire setting from Berg’s 1926 Lyric Suite for string quartet. The analysis covers: (a) the context of composition; (b) the connections established between selected poems; (c) the statistical data generated from the adhesion strength tests; and (d) how the data shape an evaluation of Berg’s settings of Baudelaire. Evidence suggests that Berg’s settings of Baudelaire are loosely entangled; the highly prescriptive score affects syntax, semantics, and prosody. Yet, because Der Wein has stood the test of time, the settings are deemed loosely accretive.

Alban Berg

1931 ◽  
Vol 72 (1066) ◽  
pp. 1125
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

1932 ◽  
Vol 73 (1067) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Kaikhosru Sorabji
Keyword(s):  
Alban Berg
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