Alban Berg (1885-1935) by Simms, Bryan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Music in the Twilight of the Habsburg Empire 1. Two Viennese Families

Berg’s Early Life The Specter of Ill Health The Marie Scheuchl Affair The Nahowski Family Helene Nahowski and Paul Kammerer Berg’s Courtship of Helene Nahowski

2. Berg’s Musical Apprenticeship, 1899–1911

Studies with Schoenberg Berg’s Early Songs Seven Early Songs (1907) Four Songs, Op. 2 Music for Piano Piano Sonata, Op. 1 String Quartet, Op. 3

3. A Struggle for Recognition, 1911–15

Before the War: 1911– 14 Berg’s Work for Schoenberg The Scandal Concert Berg as Writer Five Orchestral Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 (1912) Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (1913) Three Orchestra Pieces, Op. 6 (1914–15)

4. The War and Its Aftermath, 1914–20

Patriotic Enthusiasm Berg’s Conscription Superstition and Pseudo-Science Postwar Burdens A Change of Profession

5. Wozzeck

Operatic Plans and Uncertainties From Play to Libretto A Wozzeck Chronology The Music of Wozzeck Wozzeck on Stage

6. International Acclaim, 1923–25

Wozzeck Triumphant The Continuing Quest for Health New Directions in Postwar Music: Neoclassicism and Dodecaphony Chamber Concerto

7. Secret Programs with Twelve Tones, 1925–27

The Hanna Fuchs Affair A Return to Composing Lyric Suite for String Quartet

8. The Celebrated Composer, 1928–34

Prerogatives of Success Summer Retreats and Family Entanglements Flight from Reality Berg’s Music and the Nazi Threat A Musical Digression: Der Wein

9. Lulu

The Search for Lulu Wedekind’s Lulu Plays Berg’s Libretto for Lulu A Chronology of Composition The Music of Lulu Prospects for Staging Symphonic Pieces from the Opera Lulu

10. Berg’s Final Year, 1935

Berg’s Financial Crisis Political Turmoil and Austrofascism The Violin Concerto Berg’s Final Illness

11. Helene Berg and the Management of Berg’s Legacy, 1936–76

The Completion of Lulu Bereavement, Grief, and Helene Berg’s “Eternal Marriage” Helene Berg’s Life under the Nazis, 1938–45 Berg’s Musical Manuscripts and Letters Toward a Berg Biography The Alban Berg Foundation Helene Berg’s Last Years

Epilogue: Berg the Outsider Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index