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Austrian composer
1885 - Born on the 9th of February in Vienna, Austria.
1900 - At the age of fifteen, he started to teach himself music.
1904-1911 - He began a six-year period of study with Arnold Schoenberg.
1906 - He focused on his music studies full-time.
1907 - He began composition lessons.
His compositions are five piano sonata drafts and various songs, and Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder).
1911 - Berg married Helene Nahowski, singer and daughter of a wealthy family.
1913 - Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg were premiered in Vienna under Schoenberg's baton.
1915-1918 - Served in the Austrian Army.
1917 - He began work on his first opera, Wozzeck.
1924 - The performance of three excerpts from Wozzeck brought Berg his first public success.
1925 - Composed "Chamber Concerto", opera "Wozzeck".
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Berg: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Anthony Pople (Paperback - Jun 28, 1991) Described by Aaron Copland as "among the finest creations of the modern repertoire," Berg's Violin Concerto has become a twentieth-century classic. In this authoritative and highly readable guide...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Works for String Quartet by Alban Berg and Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern (Paperback - Jun 28, 2005) This impressive volume brings together three major twentieth-century chamber works: Berg'sString Quartet No. 1, Op. 3; Stravinsky'sThree Pieces for String Quartet; and Webern'sFive Movements for... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Berg Companion (Hardcover - Mar 17, 1990) |
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