Alban Berg
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century music provoke as much fascination and reverence as Alban Berg, the Viennese composer whose haunting, emotionally charged works bridged the Romantic tradition and the radical innovations of the Second Viennese School. Karen Monson's Alban Berg chronicles the life and artistic evolution of this complex genius, tracing his formative years in fin-de-siècle Vienna, his transformative discipleship under Arnold Schoenberg, and the creation of his most celebrated masterworks — from the Violin Concerto to the operas Wozzeck and Lulu — works that shook the foundations of modern classical music. Richly illustrated with photographs, Monson's biography presents Berg not merely as a composer, but as a deeply human figure shaped by love, loss, and an era of profound European upheaval. Her prose is both scholarly and accessible, illuminating the intricate twelve-tone techniques of Berg's music without sacrificing the emotional and biographical drama that made his short life so extraordinary. A portrait of an artist perpetually caught between worlds — tonal and atonal, classical and modern, public and private — this biography leaves the reader wondering whether Berg's greatest work was left forever unfinished.
Author: Karen Monson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century music provoke as much fascination and reverence as Alban Berg, the Viennese composer whose haunting, emotionally charged works bridged the Romantic tradition and the radical innovations of the Second Viennese School. Karen Monson's Alban Berg chronicles the life and artistic evolution of this complex genius, tracing his formative years in fin-de-siècle Vienna, his transformative discipleship under Arnold Schoenberg, and the creation of his most celebrated masterworks — from the Violin Concerto to the operas Wozzeck and Lulu — works that shook the foundations of modern classical music. Richly illustrated with photographs, Monson's biography presents Berg not merely as a composer, but as a deeply human figure shaped by love, loss, and an era of profound European upheaval. Her prose is both scholarly and accessible, illuminating the intricate twelve-tone techniques of Berg's music without sacrificing the emotional and biographical drama that made his short life so extraordinary. A portrait of an artist perpetually caught between worlds — tonal and atonal, classical and modern, public and private — this biography leaves the reader wondering whether Berg's greatest work was left forever unfinished.