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"Altenberg-Lieder"
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pour | Voix (moyenne), orchestre symphonique |
Édition | Partition musicale de poche |
№ d’article | 490029 |
Auteur / Compositeur | Alban Berg |
Éditeur | Mark DeVoto |
Langue | allemand |
Dimensions | 48 pages; 17 × 24 cm |
Année de création | 1912 |
Date de parution | 2008 |
Éditions / Producteur | Universal Edition |
№ de fabricant | UE 34123 |
ISBN | 9783702466473 |
ISMN | 9790008080043 |
UPC | 0803452063667 |
(…) Close study of the score has revealed the remarkable sophistication and originality of the architecture of the "Altenberglieder". The careful organization of motives relating Songs I and V is perhaps the most impressive aspect of this architecture; the relationship of the twelve-note passacaglia theme in Song V and the viola melody beginning at m. 12 of Song I is an adumbration of Schoenberg's serial technique of a decade later, while the harmonic relationship of two five-note chords at mm. 14-15 of Song I, which appear in reverse order at mm. 50-55 of Song V, defines an overall arch-form for the entire cycle. It is structural aspects like these that mark Berg's "Altenberglieder" as a work of particular importance in the historic development that culminated in Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique; that discovery, which has had such profound influence on composers ever since, can now be seen as the result of a search for structural coherence and comprehensiveness in which all three of the great Viennese, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, shared. (Mark DeVoto)