* February 9th, 1885, Vienna – † December 24th 1935, Vienna
Alban Berg an Austrian composer, was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined romanticism with a personal adaptation of other contemporary technique.
Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg, in October 1904. With Schoenberg he studied counterpoint, music theory, and harmony. By 1906, he was studying music full-time; by 1907, he began composition lessons. His student compositions included five drafts for piano sonatas. He also wrote two outstanding 20th century operas, Lulu, and Wozzeck. Berg’s best-known piece is his elegiac Violin Concerto. It is, along with the Bartok violin concertos, probably the finest music written for the violin in the 20th century. Like much of his mature work, it employs a personal adaptation of Schoenberg’s twelve tone technique that enables the composer to combine frank atonality with passages that use more traditional tonal harmonies. Berg died far too early and never saw the success his work deserved. However he was spared having to see his country and culture ravaged by the Nazis.
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