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Book SynopsisA collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. It explores the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era.
Trade Review"Hailey's introductory chapter is remarkable for the amount of evocative and trenchant detail he has managed to offer in a small space; it may well be the best writing about this milieu since Carl Schorske's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna thirty years ago... It is an unexpected delight that a real portrait emerges in this volume."--William R. Braun, Opera News "[This collection] should be welcomed ... as one of the most important and perceptive books on Berg to appear for many years."--Nicholas Baragwanath, Music and Letters "These translations alone make this a valuable contribution to our understanding of Berg the man as well as to Berg the composer."--Contemporary Review
Table of ContentsPreface 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
