NEW • NOUVEAUTE • NEUHEIT 11/07-(5) Title: The Viennese School Teachers & Followers Alban Berg Artist: Steffen Schleiermacher, piano 1 CD Order No.: MDG 613 1475-2 UPC-Code: Viennese Triumvirate True Apostle The triumvirate of the second Viennese school is Hans Erich Apostel remained true to his teacher complete. After Schönberg and Webern Steffen Alban Berg even after Berg’s death. He arranged the Schleiermacher now presents Alban Berg and his fourth movement of Berg’s opera Lulu for piano four pupils in standard-setting piano compositions. hands and supervised the new editions of the operas Wozzeck and Lulu into the 1960s. As a composer, Adorned Logic Apostel was inspired by artistic friendships with the According to his own testimony, Berg became a painters of his time. It was in this connection that he ”proper composer” as a result of Schönberg’s penned the ten piano pieces entitled Kubiniana based influence. He had composed more than sixty pieces on pencil drawings by Alfred Kubin. before completing a piano sonata in 1909 that he regarded as worthy of entering in his work catalogue Surprises Unveiled as his op. 1. His pupil Theodor W. Adorno composed All that remains to be said about Steffen short piano pieces along the lines of miniatures by Schleiermacher’s many prizewinning CD editions is Schönberg and Weber, but these works were later that that the pianist always surprises us with his finely obscured by his achievements in the fields of formulated and highly informative texts – and this philosophy and the aesthetics of music. In one booklet too offers eloquent testimony on this point. analytic study, by the way, Adorno proved that Berg did not compose a single note of his op. 1 by mere The Viennese School / Teachers & Followers chance. Everything developed from a strict logic. Anton Webern Works by Wolpe, Herscovici, Spinner, Focke, Elston, Laughing Mat(t)er? Leich, Searle Fritz Heinrich Klein developed the ”mother chord” Steffen Schleiermacher, piano consisting not only of all twelve tones but also of all MDG 613 1282-2 eleven intervals. In his early composition The Machine – An Extonal Self-Satire Klein, using a pseudonym, Arnold Schönberg: Wien produced the very first printed twelve-tone Works by Schönberg, Wellesz, Koffler, Eisler, Ullmann, composition in 1921 – which Schönberg did not find to Jelinek, Gerhard his amusement. Here Scheiermacher interprets this Steffen Schleiermacher, piano work together with Markus Zugehör. MDG 613 1433-2 DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM AUDIOVISION GMBH • BACHSTRASSE 35 • D-32756 DETMOLD TEL.: ++49-(0)5231-93890 • FAX.: ++49-(0)5231-26186 .