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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 Seven Early Songs (1905-8) and the ftrst version of Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1907); another song, An Leukon (1908), was published in Willi Reich, Alban Berg (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 clarinet and hom with piano accompaniment (1907); four-part chorus. (3) Works for string quartet 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 sonatas. 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works only the Twelve Variations on an Original Theme (1908) have been published. 292 THE BERG COMPANION All of the unpublished works should appear in the near future as part of the forthcoming Alb~ Berg Gesamtmugabe.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) Sonata 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 Peter Altenberg 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, opera in three acts after Georg Buchner (1917-22) Three Fragments from Wo.aeck, for soprano and orchestra (1924) Chamber Concerto, for piano, violin, 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) Lyric Suite, for string quartet (1925-6) Der Wein, concert aria for soprano and orchestra (1929) Four-part Canon 'Alban Berg an das Frankfurter Opemhaus' , for chorus (1930) Lulu, opera in three acts after Frank Wedekind (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 Music Theory at the College of Music, Temple University, Philadelphia. A composer and pianist, he studied with John Kirk patrick. His PhD dissertation for Harvard concerned the harmony 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 Walter Piston 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 Vienna 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, Kurt Weill; an Illustrated Biography, and a forthcoming monograph on Wozzeck. 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 Richard Strauss's Salome 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 Rudolf Kolisch, 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 Piano Sonata 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 Berlin, 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.