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	Amazon.com: Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" (1935) / Wolfgang Rihm: "Time Chant" Music for ...
		Previn: Violin Concerto; Bernstein: Serenade ~ Leonard Bernstein
		Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" - 1.
		Berg's Violin Concerto (1935) is considered by many the most accessible and emotionally engaging piece of music in the atonal idiom.
	www.amazon.com /Alban-Berg-Concerto-Orchestra-Anne-Sophie/dp/B000001GH9 (1207 words)

	Violin Concerto (Berg) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 (the score is dated August 11, 1935).
		Berg worked on the piece very quickly, completing it within a few months, although it is thought that his working on the piece was largely responsible for his failing to complete Lulu before his death on December 24, 1935 (the violin concerto was the last work that Berg completed).
		Berg quotes this chorale directly in the last movement of the piece, where the harmonisation by Johann Sebastian Bach is heard in the clarinets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Berg) (630 words)

	Berg's Violin Concerto 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tone-row-accompanied violin phrases contrast sharply with the complete consonance and traditional voice leading of the woodwind "organ." Later on in the piece (p.88 m.184-97) the flowing, chromatic melody is doubled an octave lower in the orchestra, recalling a device of melodic enhancement used extensively in the Romantic period.
		A technique common to classical concerto form is the repetition/development of a certain motive or theme between soloist and orchestra.
		Berg's concerto is no exception: the dissonant, detached, rhythmic chords of the soloist (beginning p.61 m.35-72) are imitated by the orchestra (p.
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	Encyclopedia: Violin Concerto (Berg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Berg set Lulu to one side to write the concerto, which he dedicated "To the memory of an angel." The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart.
		Origin Etymology Concerto (from the Latin concertus, from certare, to strive, also confused with concentus), in its most general sense, is a name for a piece of classical music in which there are two distinct groups of instruments, one larger than the other.
		The principal tone row from Alban Bergs Violin Concerto This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
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	Alban Berg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg.
		Berg was a part of Vienna's cultural elite during the heady period of ''fin de siècle''.
		Berg is probably best known for his Violin Concerto (Berg)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 Richard WagnerWagnerian harmonies.
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		Berg, however, hit one of those "composer's block" (similar to "writer's block") periods: inspiration was not forthcoming.
		However, an unexpected event spurred Berg's imagination: the sudden death, at the age of eighteen, of Manon Gropius, the brilliant and beautiful daughter of famed architect Walter Gropius and the charismatic Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler.
		Manon Gropius was apparently a remarkable young lady, described by Berg as "an angel." Berg composed his Violin Concerto in a very short time as a requiem in her memory.
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	Violin Concerto (Berg) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The piece stemmed from a commission from the (Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow) violinist Louis Krasner.
		Berg quotes this chorale directly in the last movement of the piece, where the harmonisation by (German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of Western music (1685-1750)) Johann Sebastian Bach is heard in the (A single-reed instrument with a straight tube) clarinets.
		There is another directly quoted tonal passage in the work in the form of a (Click link for more info and facts about Carinthia) Carinthian (A song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture) folk song in the second movement.
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		Berg had adored the girl since her earliest childhood, and, harnessing the creative energy that tragedy can inspire, he resolved to compose a musical memorial.
		In fact, many nineteenth-century violin concertos, including those of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, had settled their tonic on the note D, a note at the heart of the instrument's tuning-not such a different tactic from Berg's.
		In the score, Berg instructs the soloist to assume leadership over the violin and viola sections "audibly and visibly" as the movement progresses, and asks those orchestral string players to successively join and resist the soloist "in just as demonstrative a manner," eventually dropping away so that only the soloist is playing.
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	Lulu (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg.
		Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by Karl Kraus, but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed his other opera, Wozzeck.
		Schoenberg at first accepted, but upon being sent copies of Berg's sketches he changed his mind, saying that it would be a more time-consuming task than he had thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lulu_(opera) (1473 words)

	Alban Berg Biography
		Berg was born Alban Maria Johannes Berg in Vienna on February 9th, 1885.
		Berg's interest in music had begun to take off in 1899, and he composed his first songs during the 1900-1 schoolyear.
		Berg and about 200 other "faithful" met Mahler at the train station at the time of his leaving to demonstrate their appreciation of his accomplishments.
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	Anne-Sophie Mutter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Berg's Violin Concerto (1935) is considered by many the most accessible and emotionally engaging piece of music in the atonal idiom.
		His last completed work, the concerto was written as a memorial "to an angel" upon the premature death of Alma Mahler's daughter Manon Gropius.
		Sibelius's marking for the solo violin is dolce ed espressivo, which for most violinists would mean "with vibrato." But Mutter plays senza vibrato and achieves a hauntingly expressive effect over the muted pianissimo oscillations of the orchestral violins.
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	Violin Concerto (Berg): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Violin Concerto (Berg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Like a number of other works by Berg, the piece combines the twelve tone technique which Berg had learnt from his teacher Arnold Schoenberg with passages written in a freer style.
		While parts of the score are atonal, as is the norm in twleve tone works, some parts can be said to be in a certain key, and quotes of purely tonal music are also present.
		These last four notes of the row are also the first four notes of the chorale melody, Es ist genug (It Is Enough).
	www.encyclopedian.com /vi/Violin-Concerto-(Berg).html (600 words)

	Amazon.com: Webern conducts Berg Violin Concerto: Music: Marguerite Galimir,Alban Berg,Anton Webern,BBC Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Concerto For Violin And Orchestra: I Andante - Allegretto
		We have the chance to go back in time to when the Berg concerto was barely known, and as an historical document of the event it is priceless.
		The recording of Berg's Lyric Suite for String Quartet is of lesser impression audio-wise than the violin concerto.
	www.amazon.com /Webern-conducts-Berg-Violin-Concerto/dp/B000003XHN (902 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Berg: Violin Concerto / Rihm: Time Chant, Anne-Sophie Mutter, CD
		Violin Concerto 'To The Memory Of An Angel': I. Andante - Allegretto
		On this recording she plays the beautiful Violin Concerto (1935) by Alban Berg and a work from 1992, "Gesungen Zeit" (Time Chant), by Wolfgang Rihm.
		Berg's Concerto was written as a memorial to a young girl and bears the subtitle, "To the memory of an angel." Dense, difficult, and suffused with sadness, it richly repays repeated listening.
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	Berg Violin Concerto Watanabe ELATUS 0927467372 [VM]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Composed in 1935, the concerto is dedicated "To the Memory of an Angel", Manon, recently deceased daughter of Alma Mahler and Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius.
		Berg’s Chamber Concerto for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments from 1925 is a tougher piece for this writer to review.
		That said, Sinopoli makes a great case for this piece to present to people like me. Following an approach similar to the one used in the Violin Concerto, in his hands the hard edges as softened, while the lyrical sections are presented in the beautiful velvet ‘cushion’ the members of the Staatskapelle Dresden provide.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Mar04/Berg_Watanabe.htm (549 words)

	Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival
		In the context of this Festival, Arnold Schoenberg is noted both as the architect of new directions in twentieth century music, and as the teacher of Hanns Eisler and Alban Berg, two of the most influential composers of the Viennese Second School.
		Berg’s Violin Concerto is considered by many to be the high point of the modern era.
		Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto of 1942 was described by the composer in a quattrain:
	www.adelaidefestival.org.au /archives/1998/music/nf52.htm (233 words)

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		The Levine was able to synchronise the orchestra with the violin solo, and the whole music flows homogenically and without disturbances caused by misinterpretation or misorchestration.
		Throughout, Mutter's intuitive realisation of the psychic journey traced by Berg reveals the work's significance as closer in spirit to a requiem of farewell than a traditional concerto.
		As with the Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2 and other contemporary works she champions, Mutter plays with a gripping immediacy that indeed makes Rihm's imaginative novelty seem tailor-made for her.
	www.findtutorials.com /shop_uk/B000001GH9/Berg_Violin_Concerto.html (423 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - Alban Berg
		Berg was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg’s, yet applied a freer, more lyrical and expressive approach to atonal and twelve-note music.
		Alban Berg Quartet - EMI CDC 555 190-2
		Berg died of blood poisoning caused by an insect bite
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/berg.shtml (397 words)

	Berg: Violin Concerto (1935) & Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (1909),Met Opera Orchestra, Carngie Hall 23rd May (BH) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Written in response to the untimely death of the young Manon Gropius, it is without doubt one of the 20th century’s great violin concerti.
		Berg then grafts on a twelve-tone row, and then finally uses a Bach chorale that melds amazingly with everything that has come before it.
		With the orchestra’s gleaming second violin section in its usual keen form, the first movement opens with one of Mahler’s gentlest, simplest motifs – to my ears a resigned sigh – from which grows a journey that swells with violence but ultimately finds an almost supernatural peace and radiance.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/berg_mahler235.htm (1069 words)

	Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Schoenberg's pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern, each with an individual musical language, put into practice the general principles of atonality, music without tonality or key-centre, and twelve-note music or serialism, music based on a series of the twelve semitones or half-steps of the modern scale.
		Berg wrote two important operas, Wozzeck, a study of insanity, based on the play by Büchner, and the unfinished Lulu, based on Wedekind.
		Berg's Violin Concerto and Chamber Concerto are an important part of 20th century repertoire.
	www.naxos.com /composer/berg.htm (132 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Berg: Chamber Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6; Violin Concerto - - Product Details
		The Violin Concerto's ardent warmth and tender lyricism, expressing Berg's meditations on death and redemption (including a direct quote from a Bach cantata) after the untimely passing of Manon Gropius, make it irresistible.
		The "Violin Concerto" is the only piece here that has become part of the standard repertory, and the performance is beautiful, if not as well known as Mutter's.
		Of the atonalists, Berg is in some ways the most "messy." He was not as orthodox as his classmate Webern when it came to applying twelve note techniques.
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