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People In Music History
Berg, Alban (1885-1935) Austrian composer; born, worked, and died in Vienna;
pupil of Schoenberg, whose methods he developed. Used a free-atonal idiom
combined with very closely worked structures (passacaglia, variation, etc.) in
opera Wozzeck, completed 1922; shortly afterward turned to strict twelve-note
technique, e.g., in Chamber Concerto (piano, violin, winds), completed 1925.
Other works include twelve-note opera, Lulu; a string quartet and (also for
string quartet) Lyric Suite; songs with orchestra and with piano; violin
concerto "in memory of an angel" (i.e., Manon Gropius, 18-year-old daughter of
Mahler's widow by her second marriage), written shortly before his own death
and not performed until after it (1936).