Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a highly personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Alban Berg - Life and work. Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg. His family lived quite comfortably until the death of his father in 1900. He was more ...

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Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg. His family lived quite comfortably until the death of his father in 1900. He was more interested in literature than music as a child, and did not begin to compose until he was fifteen, when he started to teach himself music. He had very little formal music eduction until he began a six-year period of study with Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904 to 1911, studying counterpoint, music theory, and harmony; by 1906 he concentrated on his music studies full-time ...

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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist. Benjamin Britten - Life. Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He began composing prolifically as a child, and in 1927 began private lessons with Frank Bridge. He also studied, less happily, at the Royal College of Music under John Ireland and with some input from Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although ultimately h ...

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• Benjamin Britten - Reputation
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• Benjamin Britten - Works for and with orchestra
• Benjamin Britten - Operas and Church Parables
• Benjamin Britten - Others

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20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer, the microtonal music adopted by Harry Pa ...

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• 20th century classical music - Romantic style
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• 20th century classical music - Free dissonance and experimentalism
• 20th century classical music - Neoclassicism
• 20th century classical music - Post-modern music
• 20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth
• 20th century classical music - Minimalism
• 20th century classical music - Electronic music
• 20th century classical music - Jazz-influenced composition
• 20th century classical music - Other

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Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conductor and a teacher. Alexander von Zemlinsky - Early Life. Zemlinsky was born in Vienna and studied the piano from a young age. He played the organ in his synagogue on holidays, and was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory in 1884. There he studied the piano with Anton Door, winning the school's piano prize in 1890. He also took composition lessons, and began to write pieces. ...

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• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Operas
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Other Works for the stage
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Choral Works
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Voices and orchestra
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Songs for voice and piano
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Chamber Music
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Works for piano
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - External link

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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, M ...

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Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history. Politically and economically, the nation struggled with the terms and reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1918) that ended World War I, and endured punishing levels of inflation. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar Culture. The fourteen years of the Weimar were also marked by explosive intellectual productivity. German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture. Political theorist Ernst Bloc ...

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows. He was also an important music theorist and an influential teacher of composition. Arnold Schoenberg - Biography. Arn ...

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Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the Twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical style later known as serialism. Anton Webern - Biography. Webern was born in Vienna, Austria, as Anton Friedrich Wilh ...

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The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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In music the common practice period is a long period in western musical history spanning from before the classical era proper to today, dated, on the outside, as 1600-1900. It is most commonly contrasted with contemporary music. Common practice music shares many traits and is tonal as opposed to modal or atonal and includes most of classical and popular music. Despite the emergence of many new styles and techniques common practice music may still be the most common European influenced music. Walter Piston, among others, uses the term in his book Harmony (ISBN 03939548 ...

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Viktor Ullmann (b 1 January 1898 in Teschen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now divided between Cieszyn in Poland and Cesky Tesin in the Czech Republic; d 18 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was an Austrian (or Czech) composer, conductor and pianist. Viktor Ullmann - Biography. Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Teschen, the modern Cieszyn or Cesky Tesin. Both his parents were from families of Jewish descent, but had converted to Roman Catholicism before Viktor's birth. His fathe ...

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Voice instrumental music is the term used for compositions and improvisations for the human voice. This kind of music treats the human voice as an instrument just like the violin or the piano. It seeks to use the expressive capabilities of the human voice to express and perform music without words like a spontaneous improvisation on percussion or a violin sonata. It involves a class of singing which does not use words. In these cases the voice is normally being used as if it is a ...

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• Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music
• Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music
• Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions
• Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music
• Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in central Europe. It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The capital is the city of Vienna. Since January 1st, 2006, the seat of the Presidency of the EU has been in Vienna, where Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel assumes leade ...

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The xylorimba (sometimes known as the xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion musical instrument which is a not a combination of the xylophone and the marimba but a xylophone with an extended range. It consists of a series of wooden bars laid out like a piano keyboard, and it combines the range of the two, usually spanning four octaves from the C one octaves below middle C to the C three octaves above middle C. Its mus

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Wozzeck is the first and most famous opera by Alban Berg. The opera was based an German playwright Georg Büchner's uncompleted Woyzeck. Berg worked the material of the play into a libretto of three compact acts with five scenes each. Berg began work on the opera in 1917 while on leave from his regiment during World War I. He completed the opera in 1922. Erich Kleiber conducted the world premiere of Wozzeck a ...

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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units (such as a strand of DNA) that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes from the Greek palin (παλιν) "back" and dromos (δρóμος) "way, direction". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. Palindrome - History. According to Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English & ...

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• Palindrome - Symmetry by characters
• Palindrome - Symmetry by words
• Palindrome - Symmetry by lines
• Palindrome - Symmetry by sound
• Palindrome - Numbers
• Palindrome - Dates and times
• Palindrome - In music
• Palindrome - Computer programs
• Palindrome - URLs
• Palindrome - Long palindromes
• Palindrome - Biological structures
• Palindrome - Philosophy of nature
• Palindrome - Computation Theory
• Palindrome - Further examples

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Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. Music using the technique is called twelve-tone music. Josef Matthias Hauer also developed a similar system using unordered hexachords, or tropes, at the exact same time and country but with no connection to Schoenberg. Other composers have created systematic use of the chromatic scale, but it is Schoenberg's method which is historically ...

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• Twelve-tone technique - Derivation
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See also: 1978 in music, other events of 1979, 1980 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1979 in music - Events. Disco reigned supreme in 1979, with several #1 hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer that year. Several artists who were not regarded as dance/disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco singles, including New Wave band Blondie with their first US number one single "Heart Of Glass" and Rod Stewart with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy". However, the backlash against d ...

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• 1979 in music - Published popular music
• 1979 in music - Classical music
• 1979 in music - Opera
• 1979 in music - Musical theater
• 1979 in music - Musical films
• 1979 in music - Births
• 1979 in music - Deaths
• 1979 in music - Awards
• 1979 in music - Grammy Awards
• 1979 in music - Country Music Association Awards
• 1979 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

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1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1885 - Events. 1885 - January. January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside. January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum 1885 - February. ...

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