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Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg.
Berg would then pass this idea down to one of his students, Theodor Adorno, who stated: "The main principle he conveyed was that of variation: everything was supposed to develop out of something else and yet be intrinsically different".
Berg was a part of Vienna's cultural elite during the heady period of fin de siècle.
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Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer.
Berg is probably best known for his Violin Concerto, which, like much of his work, combines atonality with tonal passages, and uses Schoenberg's twelve tone technique in a way as to admit Wagnerianian harmonies.
Berg died on Christmas Eve 1935, in Vienna, from blood poisoning caused by an insect bite.
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 Alban Berg
The early sonata sketches eventually culminated in Berg's Piano Sonata Op.1 (1907–8); while considered to be his "graduating composition", is one of the most formidable Op.
In 1906, Berg met Helene Nahowski, singer and daughter of a wealthy family, and despite the outward hostility of her family, married on May 3, 1911.
The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was not performed in its entireity until December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed a performance in Berlin.
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Schoenberg was a major influence on him; Berg not only greatly admired him as a composer, but many people believe that he saw him as a surrogate father (Berg's own father died when he was 15).
The piece caused a riot, and the performance had to be halted - a complete performance of the work was not given until 1952.
Berg is probably best known for his Violin Concerto, which, like much of his work, combines atonality with tonal passages, and uses Schoenberg's twelve tone technique in a way as to admit Wagnerian harmonies.
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