Alban Berg

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Born: 1885 — Wien — Austria

Died: 1935 — Wien — Austria

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Alban Berg e Anton Webern

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Inaugural meeting of the first Joseph Marx Society
[posted 3 May 2006]
On April 1st, 2006, the inaugural meeting of the first Joseph Marx Society in history took place in Vienna. Berkant Haydin, the author of the website (http://www.joseph.marx.org/) who had registered the society at the Austrian authorities in March, founded the Joseph Marx Society with Austria's leading composers and music officials: Friedrich Cerha — who has completed and orchestrated Alban Berg's opera "Lulu" — with his wife Gertraud, the celebrated composer Kurt Schwertsik, the influential Austrian music critic and Marx pupil Peter Vujica, Haide Tenner (President of the Vienna RSO), Eric Marinitsch (Promotion and Marketing Director of Universal Edition), Heinz Prammer (European Cultural Services) and Robert Hanzlik (a renowned music researcher).

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24 April 1911: Premiere of piano sonata op. 1 and string quartet op. 3, in Vienna, Austria.

31 March 1913: Premiere of Fünf Orchesterlieder op. 4, in Vienna, Austria.

14 December 1925: Premiere of Wozzeck, in Berlin, Germany.

8 January 1927: Premiere of of the Lyrische Suite, in Vienna, Austria.

27 March 1927: Premiere of chamber concert for piano, violin and 12 wind instruments, in Berlin, Germany.

14 April 1930: Premiere of Drei Orchesterstücke op. 6 (complete version), in Oldenburg, Germany.

4 June 1930: Premiere of Der Wein, concert aria, in Königsberg, Germany.

30 November 1934: Premiere of the Lulu suite, in Berlin, Germany.

19 April 1936: Premiere of the violin concerto “Dem Andenken eines Engels”, in Barcelona, Spain.

2 June 1937: Premiere of Lulu, in Zürich, Switzerland.

24 February 1979: Premiere of Berg's Lulu (completed by Cerha), in Paris, France.

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Berg in 1923
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[details ←] Works for String Quartet, viola, violin, cello, string quartet,

[details ←] Violin Concerto, violin,

[details ←] Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6

[details ←] Wozzeck, Study Score

[details ←] 7 Early Songs, piano, vocal,

[details ←] Vier Stucke fur Klarinette und Klavier, clarinet, piano, organ,

[details ←] Piano Sonata Op. 1, New Rev., piano,

[details ←] Violin Concerto, violin, piano,

[details ←] Chamber Concerto, violin, piano,

[details ←] Wozzeck, Libretto (English

[details ←] Lyrische Suite

[details ←] Lyric Suite, String Quartet, S, viola, violin, cello, string quartet,

[details ←] Lulu - Study Score

[details ←] Wozzeck, Vocal Score, vocal,

[details ←] Songs, 4, Op. 2

[details ←] Pieces, 4, Op. 5, Clar/Pf

[details ←] Wozzeck, 3 Excerpts

[details ←] Es Ist Ein Reis Entsprungen

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