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LIST OF COMPOSITIONS

Juvenilia and student works

The large collection of Berg's juvenilia and student works may be divided into four categories:

(1) Songs There exist in manuscript 86 songs dating from the period c1900-1908, just over half of which have been published. Eight of these songs were published during Berg'S lifetime, the (1905-8) and the ftrst version of Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1907); another song, An Leukon (1908), was published in Willi Reich, (Zurich: Atlantis Verlag, 1963); more recently 46 songs have been published as two volumes ofJugendlieder.

(2) Choruses and canons 16 canons for accompanied and unaccompanied voices; two-part canon for and hom with accompaniment (1907); four-part chorus.

(3) Works for and quintet Miscellaneous fugues, dances, variations, and other movements. The collection includes one. complete four-movement string quartet and a double fugue for string quintet and piano (1907).

(4) Works for piano Miscellaneous scherzos, variations, etc. for piano or piano duet; the drafts of ftve (mainly unfmished) piano . Of these works only the Twelve Variations on an Original Theme (1908) have been published. 292 THE BERG COMPANION

All of the unpublished works should appear in the near future as part of the forthcoming Alb~ Berg Gesamtmugabe.

Published works

Jugendlieder, vol. 1(1901-4),23 selected songs for voice and piano Schliesse mir die Augen beide [1], for voice and piano (1907) Jugendlieder, vol. 2 (1904-8), 23 selected songs for voice and piano Seven Early Songs, for voice and piano (1905-8); orchestral arrangement (1928) Am Leukon, for voice and piano (1908) Twelve Variations on an Original Theme, for piano (1908) op. 1, for piano (1907-8) Four Songs op. 2, for voice and piano (1909-10) String Quartet op. 3 (1910) Five Orchestral Songs on Picture-Postcard Texts of op. 4, for voice and orchestra (1912) Four Pieces op. 5, for clarinet and piano (1913) Three Orchestral Pieces op. 6 (1914-15) Wo.aeck op. 7, in three acts after Georg Buchner (1917-22) Three Fragments from Wo.aeck, for and orchestra (1924) Chamber , for piano, , and 13 wind instruments (1923-5) Adagio, for violin, clarinet, and piano (1925) [arrangement of second movement of Chamber Concerto] Schliesse mir die Augen beide [II], for voice and piano (1925) , for string quartet (1925-6) , concert aria for soprano and orchestra (1929) Four-part Canon 'Alban Berg an das Frankfurter Opemhaus' , for chorus (1930) , opera in three acts after (1929--35) Five Symphonic Pieces fromLrdu [Lrdu Suite), for soprano and orchestra (1935) Concerto for violin and orchestra (1935) NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

Bruce Archibald is Professor of at the College of Music, Temple University, Philadelphia. A and pianist, he studied with John Kirk­ patrick. His PhD dissertation for Harvard concerned the of the early works of Berg.

Friedrich Gerha is a distinguished composer and conductor whose works have been widely performed throughout Europe. He was co-founder of the Die Reihe Ensemble. His definitive realiZation of the unorchestrated portion of Act III of Lulu, which made possible the first complete performances of Berg's masterpiece, has met with universal acclaim.

Brenda Dalen is visting assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is an editor of the International Alban Berg Society Newsletter and a doctoral candidate at Yale University, where she is currently completing her dissertation 'A Study of Berg's Chamber Concerto Based on the Source Documents'.

Mark DeVoto, Professor of Music at Tufts University, is editing Berg's Altenberg Songs for the forthcoming Alban Berg Gesamtausgabe. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Alban Berg Society and was the fmt editor of the Society's Newsletter. A student of at Harvard, DeVoto has recently revised and edited the new fifth edition of Piston's Harmony.

Martin Esslin has been Professor of Drama at Stanford University since 1977 when he left the BBe after a long and distinguished career that culminated in a 14-year period as Head of Drama, BBC Radio. His many publications include books on Brecht, Becken, Pinter, the Theatre of the Absurd, and German Drama. He was awarded the OBE in 1978. 294 THE BERG COMPANION

Christopher Hailey is Assistant Professor of Music at Occidental College, Los Angeles. Co-editor and translator of the Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence, and editor of the Song volume of the Alban Berg Gesamtausgabe, he has also edited the correspondence between Franz Schreker and Paul Bekker and is author of a forthcoming biography of Franz Schreker.

Patricia Hall is an Acting Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1983 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to to study Berg's sketches for Lulu and has published several articles and reviews on the topic.

Douglas Jarman is Principal Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. A member of the Board of Directors of the International Alban Berg Society and editor of the forthcoming Concerto volume of the Alban Berg Gesamtausgabe, he is author of The Music of Alban Berg, ; an Illustrated Biography, and a forthcoming monograph on .

Stephen Keu, Management Consultant for Bain & Co., received his AM from Harvard University and is working on a thesis on Berg's Four Songs op. 2. Ouring the 1985 centennial year he was co-director of the Harvard University Symposium on Berg's early music. He has for a long time been responsible for the bibliographical material in the Newsletter of the International Berg Society .

George Perle is a distinguished composer and a leading authority on the music of Alban Berg. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Perle has recently been awarded the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, the Pulitzer Prize for his Fourth Wind Quintet, and a MacArthur Fellowship. His most recent book, The Listening Composer, is shonly to be published by the University of California Press.

Derrick Puffeu is a Lecturer in Music at Cambridge University. He is editor of Music Analysis and of two forthcoming Cambridge Opera Handbooks on 's and Elektra.

Joan Allen Smith is author of Schoenberg and His Circle and editor of the Newsletter of the Intemational Alban Berg SocieO'. A violin student of , she received her PhD in music theory from Princeton and currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Michael Taylor is lecturer in Music at Trinity College, Dublin and was a member of the Arts Council of Ireland 1984-8. INDEX

Adler, Oskar, 182 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1,22,63, Adorno, Theodor, 146, 182, 191-2, 67,84,96,222,224,236,248 226-8,233 Symphony no. 9, 129 Akademischer Verband fUr Bekker, Paul, 223 Literatur und Musik, 49 Berg, Alban, Albert, Engen d' Altenberg Songs op. 4, 47-52, 53, Tieflmul, 202 54,55.7,58,59,60,61.2,63, Altenberg, Peter [Richard 68,106,108,112,121,124,139 EngIinder), 7-9, 19,26,29,48, An Leukon, 37 182 Chamber Concerto, 22, 68, 96, Askenase, Stefan, 16, 22, 24, 30 141,142,143-7,148-9,150-51, Ayrey, Craig, 81 152-3, 154-61, 162, 163-4, 165, 166,167-73,174-80,181,185, Babbitt, Milton, 269, 284 188 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 67, ioo, Double Fugue, for string quartet 269 and piano, 96 Es ist gmug, 185, 189 Four Pieces op. S, for clarinet and Balazs, Bela, 11 piano, 51,91, 106-8, 109.10, Balzac, Honore de 111-12,139 Seraphita, 111 Four Songs op. 2, 37, 43-4, 45-6, Barish, John, 229 47,67-71,72.3,74,75-80,81-2, ~6k,Bela,II,269,289 83,84,85,86-7,96,111 Bluebeard's Castle, 214 Jugendlieder, 37-40,41, 70-72 String Quartet no. 2,271,275 Lulu, IS, 20,29,63-4,68, 84, 119, String Quartet no. 4, 272, 274-6, 139,147, ISO, 186, 189, 191-2, 279-80, 284-5 200-201,208,212-16,226, String Quartet no. 5,270-72,273, 228-9, 23S-44, 245, 246-8, 249, 279,286,287-8 2S0, 251, 2S2, 253-4, 25S-9, Baudelaire, Charles, 9, 22, 63, 189 261-7,269,270-75,276,277-8,

29S 296 THE BERG COMPANION

278-9, 280-89 Berg, Helene [nee Nahowski], 2, Lulu Suite, 150, 177 7-8, 13, 16-20,22,25-9,31,37-8, Lyric Suite, 63-4, 105, 147, 150, 48,96,105,110,158,182,190, 177,181,185-6,189,191,205, 192,194,211,228,235,257 247,284-5,287 Berg, Herman [brother], 22 op. 1, 36, 43-4, 47, Berg, Johanna [mother), 1,23,28, 68,71,91-2,93-5,96, 119 223 Piano Variations, 36,91,92,96, Berg, Smaragda [sister), 8, 16,22, 119 96 Schliesu mir die Augen beide Berghof, 17-18,22 (1907),37 , 11,47, 106,183,212 Schliesu mir die Augen beide Bittner, Julius, 225 (1925),63 Blavatsky, Helena, 181-2 Seven Early Songs, 37, 39,40, 41, Blond, Kasper, 28 42-3,96,176 Boruttau, Alfred, 50 StringQuartetop. 3, 37,43,47-8, BouIez, Pierre, 206, 216 68,71,91,96,97·100,101,102, Brahms, Johannes, 22, 64, 67-8, 84, 103,104-5, 108, 110-11,274, 91,96,222,224 281,282 Brecht, BenoIt, 12, 213 Three Orchestral Pieces op. 6, 51, Bmo see Briinn 63,91, 104, 110-12,113·15, Broch, Herman, 9 116-17,118,119-120,123-5, Der Tad des Vergil, 9 126-33, 134, 135·7, 138-39 Bruckner, Anton, 1, 39,221-4 , 8, 84, 181-94 Briinn [Bmo), 11 Der Wein, 9, 63-4,147,150,186 Buchner, Georg, 5, 206 Woueck op. 7, 11, 16, 18,24,26, W~zeck, 5, 212, 229 28, 37, 59-61,63,67, 104, Budapest, 11 119.21,147,168·71,189-91, Buschbeck, Erhard, 51 197, 19S·9, 200·203, 205·7, Busoni, Ferruccio, 212 208·9,210-12,214-18,226, Arleccino,212 228-31,242,247-8. Turandot, 212 Analytical Guide to Gurrelieder, 48,50 carner, Mosco, 188,191 'Open Letter', 141-2, 171, 174-5, Cerba, Friedrich, 246, 257-8 181 Cervantes, Miguel de, 22 Letters to His Wife, 17,25-6,106 Chadwick, Nicholas, 38, 207-8, 'The Problem of Opera' , 200 210 'Why is Schoenberg's Music so Chopin, Fryderyk, 40 Difficult to Understand?', 231, Cracow, 11 233 Berg, Charly [brother], 22-3, 96 I>ahlhaus,~1,200,202 Berg, Conrad [father], 1,22-3,223 Debussy, Claude, 204, 270 Berg, Erich Alban [nephew], 19, Feux d'artijice, 65 27-8,70 PelUas et Melisande, 167, 206 INDEX 297

Preludes, 65 Hailey, Christopher, 38 ~otis,~~,108 H~,l(nut,22 DeVoto, Mark, 70, 86 Hauptmann, Gerhart,S Dollfuss, Engelbert, 11 Und Pippa tanzt, 229 Donat, Misha, 146-7 Hebbel, Friedrich, 43, 69-70, 76 Dvofak, Antonin, 11 Dem Schmerz sein Recht, 69 Hegel, Georg ~ilheJm Friedrich, 22 ~chendodJ,J~h,213 Heidelberg, 110 Einstein, Albert, 182, 184 Herlinger, Rdkna, 63 Engelhart, Josef, 69-70 Hilmar, Ernst, 242, 246 Englinder, Richard, see Altenberg, Hilmar,R~,38,70 Peter Hindemith, Paul, 204, 212 Cardillac,212 Fackel, Die, 4, 6, Die Harmonie tIer Welt, 212 Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 38 Hin und JlUriick, 212 Fliess, ~ilheJm, 6,183-4,193 Mathis der Maler, 212 Yom Leben und Tod, 183-4, 193 Neues vom Tage, 212 Foerster, Josef Bohuslav, 53 Hider, Adolf, 2,11 Freud,S~und,5,6,22,184 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 8-9, 203, Freund, Marya, 50 213 Friedell, Egon, 9 Hohenberg, Paul, 37 Cultural History ofModem Times, Holloway, Robin, 206, 215 9 Hugo, Victor, 204 Fucbs-Robettin, Hanna, 9, 27, Humperdinck, Engelbert, 202 105,147,181,185-6,189-92, Hyde, Martha, 235 247 Ibsen, Henrik, 5-6, 22 Gal, Erna, 16 PeerGynt,206 Gal, Hans, 225 GaIimir, Felix, 25 Jan'eek,LeoA, 11,212 George, Stefan, 8-9 Jannan,Dougbm,107,147,201, ~~,George,216 211-12,215,277 ~d,Richard,8,166,168,171, Johnson, Douglas, 248 179-80 Gleim, Johann Ludwig, 31 Kafka, Franz, 11,21 Gluck, Christoph ~illibald, 200 ~r,Georg,213 Goethe, Johann ~olfgang von Kammerer, Paul, 182-4 Faust, 206 Das Gesetz tIer Serle, 182-3 Goldmark, Karl, 225, 232 Keller, Gottfried, 21 'Rustic ~edding' Symphony, 38 Ke11er, Hans, 207, 210 Greisde,Felix, 158, 178 Kemperling, 87 Grillparzer, Franz, 22 Kerman, J~h, 210-11 Gropius, Manon, 8,184-91 Kienzl, ~ilheJm, 225 Gropius, ~alter, 8, 184 Kierkegaard, Stiren, 22 298 THE BERG COMPANION

Klein, Fritz Heinrich, 150-51 Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, 38 Kleist, Heinrich von, 213 Das 'Don der Ertle, 48 Klemperer, Otto, 212 'Revelge', 189 Klimt, Gustav, 8 Symphony no. 6, 118-19 l(naus,H~,188 Symphony no. 9. 110-11,112-13 Kodaly, Zoltan, 11 Mann, Thomas Kokoschka, Oskar, 8 Doktor Faustus, 182 Kolisch, Gertrud, see Schoenberg, Mannheim, 110 Gertrud Menkes, Hermann, 224 Kolisch, Rudolf, 145, 171, 175, 180, Merimee, Prosper, 213 191 Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 204 Komgold, Erich Wolfgang, 202-4, Milhaud, Darius, 22 212,225 Molnar, Ferenc, 11 Der Ring des Polykrates, 204 Mombert,~,43,69,71,74,78, Die tote Stadt, 204 80,83-4 Violanta, 204 Der Glilhende, 44, 69 Krasner, Louis, 182, 194 Morgenstern, Soma, 13-31 Kraus, Karl, 3-12, 19-22,25,29, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1, 182,229 63-4,67 lCrauss,CJemens, 225 The Magic , 181,223 Krenek, Ernst, 8, 19,212-13,219, Munich,11 225 Musil, Robert, 21 Jonny spielt auf, 213 Musorgsky, 270 Karl V, 213 Mussolini, Benito, 11-12 Leben des Orest, 213 Der Sprung ilher den Schatten, 212 Nahowski, Helene, see Berg, Helene Nehar, Caspar, 213 Laulitsch, Anna, 18 Newes, Tilly, 5 Lebar, Franz, 208 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 202 Lehner, Eugen, 16 Liszt, Franz Perle, George, 54,85,101,119,185, First Mephisto Waltz, 40 191,197,205-6,246-7,263-4,267 Loos, Adolf, 8,21-2,29 Windows ofOrder , 282 Loos, Lina, 8 Serial Composition and , 270 Maeterlinck, Maurice Twelve-Tone , 279 PelUos etMelisande, 166-7 Pfitzner, Hans, 203-4, 212 Mahler,Alma,8-9,28,52, 182, 184, Der arme Heinrich, 202 192,211 Palestrina, 204 Mahler, Gustav, 2-3, 8, 13, 19,22, Pisk, Paul, 145 24-5,29,38,52,64,68, 106, 119, Poe, Edgar Allen, 22 176,201,204,208,222-3,225, Polgar, Alfred, 14 227-9,232 Pohlauer,Josef,145,175-6 Kindertotenlieder,51 Poulenc, Francis, 22 INDEX 299

Prague, 11 238,269,277-8 Puccini, Giacomo, 204-5 Brenl-Lieder, 38 Das Buck der hiingenden Giirten, 82 Ravel, Maurice, 210 Chamber Symphony no. 1,36,44, GaSpard de la nuit, 44 50,91-2,93,94,120,207,210 L'Heure espagnole, 214 , 36, 44, 201, 203-5, La valse, 119 208,210 Redlich, Hans, 37,106,146,150, Friede aufErden, 233 167,191 Die glikkliche Hand, 36, 58, 203, ~ch,~illi,35,37,106,110,185, 205,225, 188, 207, 238, 246 GurTelieder, 36,47-50, 54, 58, 92, Reinhardt, Max, 11 204,230 Ren, Rudolph, 145 MosesundAron, 67, 213, 225, 233 Rilke, Rainer Marla, 11 PelleasundMelisande, 36, 92, 167, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 277 171, 180 Rittner, Thaddeus, 11 lunaire, 36, 47, 106 Rosegger, Peter, 21-2 Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19, Roth, Joseph, 14,21 106-7 Rufer, Josef, 105 S~ Quartet no. 1, 36 S~ Quartet no. 2,44,96, 178 Salten, Felix, 9 Von Heute aufMorgen, 67,213, Josefine Mutzenbacher, 9 225 Salzburg, 105 ~m Quintet, 226 Scheuch1,AJb~e, 190 Hamumielehre, 36,47,80,92,108 Scheuch1,~e, 189-91 Schoenberg, Gertrud [nee Ko1isch), Schiele, Egon, 8 171,180 Schmalfeldt, Janet, 200 Schoenberg, Mathilde [nee von Sdhorldt, Fr.anz, 204,210, 225 Zem1insky), 158-71, 178-80 Fredigundis,204 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 22 NotTe Dame, 204 Schreker, Fr.anz, 50, 202-4, 207-8, Schnitzler, Arthur, 5-6 212,218,223,225,228-31,234 Liebelei,5-6 Christophorus,204 Reigen, 5-6 Die feme Klang, 47,204,207-8, Schoek,~,213 210,215,218,228-30 Nottumo, 213 Five Songs, 230 PenthesiJea,213 Die Gezeichneten, 204, 210-11, 228 Venus, 213 DerScharzgriiber, 204, 234 Von Fischer rm synerFru, 214 Schrenk, ~alter, 223 Schoenberg, Arnold, 8, 11-12, 15, Schubert,Fr.anz,I,22,38,64,200, 19,21-5,27,29-30,35-9,43-4, 221-3,225 ~51,56,58,64,67,70,73-4,80, Schumann, Robert, 22, 38, 91 84,87,91-3,96, 101, 106-11, Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 11 141-46,150-75,178-80,182-3, Seabury, Frida Selma, 37 201,203-5,208,212-15,223-34, Seidlhofer, Bruno, 17-18 300 THE BERG COMPANION

Sbakespeure,VV~,22,206 Trahutten, 158, 160 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 66 Traunkirchen, 158 Simon, Eric, 189 T~t1er,Leo,273,277 Skryab~,JUexander,277 Smetana, Bedfich, 11,232 Verdi, Giuseppe Society for Private Musical Rigokuo, 202 Performances, see Verein fUr Verein fUr musikalische musikalische Privat­ Privatauffiirungen, 16, 108, 110, auffiirungen 145,175,226 SpeCht,Eachard,145,225 Vienna, 1-12, 15,47,49-50,108, Stefan, Paul, 221-2 160-61, 183,221-234 Stein, Erwin, 18, 145, 175,263 Steiner, Rudolph, 22 VVagner, Richard, 22, 39, 67-8, 84, Steuermann, Eduard, 145, 175 93,119,200-202,204-5,207,210, Stifter, Adalbert, 21 212,225,232 Storm, lnheodor,37,63 Gotterdiimmenmg, 44, 200, 203, Strauss, lohann, 222 206,208 Strauss, Eachard, 11,22,200-205, Lohengrin,202 207-10,212-13,215,225 Die Meistersinger, 202 Alpensinfonie,22 , 39, 200-202 ArabeUa, 213 Das Rheingoid, 206 Ariadne aufNaxos, 214 Der Ring des Nibelungen, 202 llkkwa, 200-201, 203, 208, 214, Tannhiiuser, 50, 202 217,228 , 36, 69, 120, Feuermot,202 202,210,269 Die Frau ohne Schatten, 207,210 VValter, Bruno, 48 ~~,202,214 VVatkins, Glen, 189 llin Heldenleben, 202 VVatznauer, Hermann, 22-3, 31, 37, I~o,213-14 39 Der Rosenkaf1aiier, 203, 208, 219 VVebern, Anton, 10,23-4,35,46-7, S~,58,200-202,210,214, 49,51-2,67,87,106-7,124, 217 141-2,145,158,160,166,174-5, Die schweigsame Frau, 213 231,234,236-8,278 Stravinsky, Igor, 116, 119,212-13, Five Movements op. 5,275 271,288 Four Pieces op. 7, 106 , 58 Piano Variations op. 27,278 Histoire du soidat, 212-13 Six Bagatelles op. 9, 106 Oedipus Rex, 213 Six Pieces op. 6, 50-51,96 TheRireofSpring,47,51 Three Little Pieces op. 11,106 Strindberg, loban August, 5-6, 22 VVedekind,Frank,4-7, 11, 189,203, Moses, 233 263,266 Die Biichse tIer Pandora, 4, 7, 236, Tausig, Carl 264 Das Geisterschiff, 65 Der Erdgeist, 7,229,236,265 INDEX 301

Weill, Kurt, 204, 212-13, 215 Austieg und Fall tier Stadt A{ahagon~,213-15 Die BiJrgscha/t, 213 Die Dreigroschenoper, 213, 215 Der Protagonist, 213 , 213 Der Zar liisst sich photographieren, 213 Weimar,212 WeUllnger,~o,6-7,22 Geschkcht und Charakter, 6 Weissmann, Adolf, 223 Wellesz, Egon, 145,225 Werfel, Franz, 8-9,11-12,22,27 Wilde, Oscar The Birthday ofthe Infanta, 203 Saiome,203 Wolf, Eugene, 150 Wolf,lIugo, 39,41,201,222,225 Der Corregidor, 202

Zemlinsky, Alexander von, 22, 50-51,166,201-2,205,212,217, 225 Eine jlorentinische Tragiidie, 205 Kleider machen Leute, 205 Der Kreiderkreis, 212 , 189,205 Sarema, 205 , 205, 210-11 Zem1insky, Mathilde von, see Schoenberg, Mathilde Zweig, Stefan, 182