The Music of Alban Berg

Piano Sonata
Op. 1 (1908)
(
Sonaten für Klavier)

Four Songs
Op. 2 (1910)
(Vier Lieder)

String Quartet
Op. 3 (1910)
(
Streichquartett)

Five Orchestral Songs
Op. 4 (1912)
(
Fünf Orchesterlieder nach
Ansichtskartentexten von
Peter Altenberg
)

Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
Op. 5 (1913)
(
Vier Stücke für
Klarinette und Klavier
)

Three Pieces for Orchestra
Op. 6 (1914-1915)
(
Drei Orchesterstücke)

Wozzeck
Op. 7 (1914, 1918-1922)
opera in three acts based on
Georg Büchner's drama
Woyzeck

Motivic Development
        Atonality         Palindromic Forms         Serialism/Twelve-tone system
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Chamber Concerto
for piano, violin and 13 winds
(1923-1925)
(
Kammerkonzert)

"Schliesse mir die Augen Beide"
(1925)
("Close, O close my eyes at parting")
text by Theodor Storm



Lyric Suite
for string quartet (1925-1926)
(
Lyrische Suite)


Der Wein
aria for soprano and orchestra (1929)
texts translated from Baudelaire



Violin Concerto
(1935)
(Konzert für Violine und Orchester)



Lulu
(1928-1935)
based on Frank Wedekind's plays Die
Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box)
and Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)

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