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Alban Berg: Violin Concerto (mvt. 1)

AP3303

Michael Davis, Jake Cameron, Colton Marsh, Scot Stanley

Berg History

  • Alban Berg was born on February 9th, 1885 in Vienna, Austria. Blood poisoning caused by an insect bite took Berg’s 50 year old life on Christmas Eve 1935.
  • Berg’s pieces were greatly inspired by composers Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, and Hugo Wolf.
  • The Fall of 1907 marks the first public performance from Alban Berg. He performed Piano Sonata for the rest of Schoenberg’s students. Shortly after, he played his pieces Four Songs, and String Quartet.

7 different elements

More History

  • Alongside composers Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Weber, Berg was a member of the Second Viennese School. The music created here was characterized by Schoenberg’s teachings of atonality and twelve-tone technique.
  • His service in World War I delayed his work on his first opera known as Wozzeck. He completed the opera in 1921.
  • Berg’s works included operas, vocal pieces, orchestral pieces, chamber pieces, and piano pieces.
  • Berg is regarded as one of the central figures of the twentieth century’s musical composition

Section A (Syncopated melodic line in muted first trumpet against inverted note-row in solo violin)

Section B, from bars 61 – 76, 2-note scalic group Ftt-Ab (reading downwards) in solo violin

7-note group D—D in solo violin

6-note group G-A in solo violin

6-note group B—Db in first trombone

Schezo bars 117 – 18, 5-note group D#-G in solo violin

Codetta bars 132-34, Ländler Melody in solo violin, against Scherzo theme in horns

Trio I bars 146-47, 8-note group Eb-Db in bassoon and contrabassoon

Codetta Repeats in bars 173 – 75

Waltz bars 199 – 200 5-note group D#-G in solo violin

Waltz bars 203 – 04 4-note group C#-G in solo violin

Folksong bars 214-17 Ländler melody in solo violin against Carinthian folksong in first horn

Work Cited

Background on the time piece was written

Information about Violin Concerto (mvt. 1)

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  • "Alban Berg." Berg, Alban. N.p., n.d. Web. 25th Nov. 2014.
  • "Alban Berg Biography." - Anton Maria Johannes Berg Childhood, Life and Timeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 24th Nov. 2014.
  • Reich, Willi. "Alban Berg (Austrian Composer)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 29th Nov. 2014.
  • Staff, Rovi. "Alban Berg | Biography | AllMusic." AllMusic. N.p., n.d. Web. 29th Nov. 2014.
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra’. N.p.: Chicago Symphony Orchestra’, n.d. Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Web. <http://cso.org/uploadedfiles/1_tickets_and_events/program_notes/011410_programnotes_berg_violin_concerto.pdf>.
  • October 31, 1935 - Orson Welles' famous "War Of The Worlds" broadcast airs for the first time, causing a mass panic throughout the United States.
  • Aug 14th - Social Security Act becomes law
  • Mar 9th - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
  • 1932 world war I ends
  • 1939 World war II begins
  • Berg wrote this violin concerto in the spring and summer of 1935; it’s his last completed work.
  • The ever first performance was given on April 19, 1936
  • The first movement, often tender, describes the beautiful young girl, shows her as charming and graceful, and it ends with musical sighs
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