The Cambridge Companion to Berg (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0521563747 ISBN 13: 9780521563741

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

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In this addition to the Cambridge Companion series, 13 essays by 11 authors provide a useful and interesting introduction to the music and personality of Alban Berg. The volume is divided into three main sections and a postscript: "Culture and Environment," "From Song to Opera," and "After Wozzeck." The essays deal with everything from "cultural politics" to Berg's compositional techniques, and the postscript tries to establish Berg's place in and influence on the history of 20th-century composition. The book suffers in places from an overly academic approach to its subject (not to mention an overly academic vocabulary), but the reasonably informed lay reader with an interest in Berg will still find it informative and helpful in understanding his music and its context.

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Alban Berg's achievement is based on an extraordinarily small musical output, but it includes towering masterpieces such as the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and his last work, the Violin Concerto. These and all Berg's other substantial works are discussed in this wide-ranging Companion, which contains essays written from a variety of historical and critical perspectives, outlining the place of the music in the cultural history of its time and within the broader interplay of twentieth-century fashions, aesthetics and ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521563747
• ISBN 13: 9780521563741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Pople Anthony