Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about the relationship between Berg and Schoenberg: first as pupil and teacher, then as friends and finally, after the premier of Wozzeck, as...

Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early twentieth century. Berg is now recognized as a classic composer of the modern period, best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu. Berg, Anton Webern, and their teacher Arnold Schoenberg constitute the "Second Viennese School" which played a major role in the transformation of serious music as it entered...

Vollstandiger, digital restaurierter Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1913 (Kleine Ausgabe) mit exzellenter Auflosung und hervorragender Lesbarkeit.Fuhrer zur Urauffuhrung der Gurrelieder fur Soli, Chore, Holzblaser, Blechblaser, Schlaginstrumente, Harfen/Celesta, Streicher. Text von Jens Peter Jacobsen, deutsche Ubersetzung von Robert Franz Arnold (Seite 1 bis 13). Die Gurre-Lieder von Arnold Schonberg sind eine Kantate fur Soli, Chor und Orchester. Die Worte sind einer 1871 entstandenen Novelle des danischen Dichters Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 bis 1885) entnommen, in der deutschen Ubersetzung...