Alban Berg: Music As Autobiography - Rilegato

Floros, Constantin

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ISBN 10: 363164597X ISBN 13: 9783631645970

Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2014

Riassunto

"The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography of its creator. Accordingly, the first of the three parts of this volume outlines a character portrait of this great composer. Part two considers the conditions relevant to a deeper understanding of Berg and of the Second Viennese School generally. In part three, then, Berg's key works will be analyzed and semantically deciphered in terms of his inner biography. The study is based not only on the sources in print but also on the rich unpublished material. Alban Berg was incapableof composing without a program. He needed an extra-musical stimulus. With him, personal experience was the indispensable condition of the creative process: the autobiographic reference was all-important for composing."

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L'autore:

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, about Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven and György Ligeti.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 363164597X
• ISBN 13: 9783631645970
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 386