The great Austrian composer!
Alban Maria Johannes Berg, one of the significant composers of twentieth century deployed a unique music style demonstrating expressive qualities within the highly structured style of music. The Austrian composer, along with other two great composers established what is known as the Second Viennese School. Chunk of the little portion work produced by Berg stands out by the virtue of strong Romantic Aesthetic and distinguished dramatic sense.

Young Alban was trained piano lessons by his aunt. However even as a blooming teenager he composed dozen of songs interestingly without any formal music training. His father was an export salesman and his mother was the daughter of the Austrian Imperial jeweler. As a youth he was very imaginative yet an indifferent student. At around the same time he is said to have taken a blow of his unrequited passion, also ended up failing his exams and was thwarted by the demise of his idol, composer Hugo Wolf. Sequence of such turbulent events in his life led him to a suicidal attempt. Somehow he managed to repeat his final year in school and went to work... show more

The great Austrian composer!
Alban Maria Johannes Berg, one of the significant composers of twentieth century deployed a unique music style demonstrating expressive qualities within the highly structured style of music. The Austrian composer, along with other two great composers established what is known as the Second Viennese School. Chunk of the little portion work produced by Berg stands out by the virtue of strong Romantic Aesthetic and distinguished dramatic sense.

Young Alban was trained piano lessons by his aunt. However even as a blooming teenager he composed dozen of songs interestingly without any formal music training. His father was an export salesman and his mother was the daughter of the Austrian Imperial jeweler. As a youth he was very imaginative yet an indifferent student. At around the same time he is said to have taken a blow of his unrequited passion, also ended up failing his exams and was thwarted by the demise of his idol, composer Hugo Wolf. Sequence of such turbulent events in his life led him to a suicidal attempt. Somehow he managed to repeat his final year in school and went to work as an apprentice accountant. Further in the year 1904 his brother Charley took his compositions to Arnold Schoenberg, who more than willingly welcomed him as a student.
He met Helene Nahowski in 1907 who apparently happened to be singer and in later years became his wife, when he married her in 1911. His bad health often became a problematic issue in a lot of ways and he had to take the brunt of it in the face, even at the time of his marriage, Helen’s parents objected over his poor health and lack of prospects. Got discharged for poor health while he was posted in Posted in Austrian army in 1915. He happened to revisit Woyzeck Georg Büchner's tragedy about a horribly brutalized private. In 1917, Berg started an orchestral adaptation of the which, keeping him busy for the next five years.
Berg worked at the capacity of a business manager of Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances, an organization which allowed Vienna's musical avant-garde to enjoy professionally. Performed in front of audiences, this happened during the period when the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed in the wake of World War I. Despite and in spite of severe serious personal and familial disturbances, Berg completed Wozzeck in 1922. Opera gained considerable impetus gradually enjoying performances throughout Europe and recognition as a masterpiece, though sharply criticized earlier!
Berg's another major work, the Chamber Concerto (1923-1925) was among his first to demonstrate Schoenberg's twelve-tone influences, although the work does not make rigorous, consistent use of twelve-tone practices. Following year he wrote the Lyric Suite for string quartet, parts of which systematically employ twelve-tone principles. It happens to be one of his often performed works. It is said that George Gershwin had special admiration for the work. It turned out that the composer had originally included a sung text in the last movement, a tribute to his "secret" lover, Hanna Fuchs-Robertin. The Suite is now sometimes performed with the restored text.
It is said he was in the process of working on his most talked about opera Lulu- A sexual horror story, when he died of blood poisoning, which he began in 1929. Later completed by Friedrich Cerha in 1976, after 12 years of work.
Remarkable last works were noticeable pieces ‘The Violin Concerto (1935) dedicated ‘to the Memory of an Angel,’ has a mention of Alma Mahler’s daughter (a close ally) and Walter Gropius, Manon, who had died at the age of 19 which are famous for its outstanding lyrical expression and incorporation of tonal elements into its 12-tone idiom!
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