
Berg's Wozzeck
Patricia Hall(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 9. June 2011
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-534261-1 (ISBN)
Description
Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Buechner's play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Berg's Wozzeck traces the composer's slow but determined progress. Using compositional sketches, diaries, notebooks and other archival material, author Patricia Hall reveals the challenges Berg faced--from his induction as a soldier in World War I, to the hyper-inflation of the twenties. In addition to the precise chronology of the opera, the sketches show how Berg derived large-scale form from the Buechner text, and how his compositional style evolved during the nine years in which he composed the opera. A comprehensive visual database on the book's companion website of the extant sketches from seven archives in the United States, Germany and Austria allows the reader to examine, for the first time, Berg's sketches in high resolution color scans.
Reviews / Votes
this study of the Wozzeck sketches will be an invaluable research resource for many years to come and should be on the shelves of every self-respecting university music library and in the library of every scholar interested in Bergs opera. * Nick Chadwick, Music and Letters *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Students, scholars, and composers interested in Berg; twentieth-century music; sketch studies; twentieth-century opera; fans of Berg's music and in particular, Wozzeck.
Illustrations
59 line-cut and 76 halftone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-534261-1 (9780195342611)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Patricia Hall is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include A View of Berg's 'Lulu' Through the Autograph Sources (1996, winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award), and A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches (2004, co-edited with Friedemann Sallis). She is the editor and founder of the electronic journal Music and Politics.
Author
Associate Professor of Music TheoryAssociate Professor of Music Theory, University of California, Santa Barbara
Content
INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION; CATALOGUE OF SKETCHES FOR WOZZECK; BIBLIOGRAPHY