Piano Music - Alban Berg

Alban Berg


1885 - 1935
Alban Berg was an Austrian composer of the "Second Viennese School".



📖 "The best music always results from ecstasies of logic."
(In New York Times)


📖 "Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."


📖 "I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy."


📖 "Nature is so god-filled. Daily I swear to myself that I will spend the end of my days in the country, after my life’s beginning had sadly condemned me to the city.”


📖 “Oh! All that is beautiful – Nature and Art – is ever new, each day is new, and only the philistine always sees the same thing.”


📖 “If what I write is not what I have experienced, my life will someday perhaps be directed by my compositions, which would then be sheer prophecies.” 
Berg to Schönberg, April 10, 1914


📖 “I tell you this whole clamoring for tonality springs not so much from the need to be able to relate to a key note, as rather from the need for familiar consonances, let’s be honest, for the triad – and I maintain that, so long as it contains a sufficient number of such triads, a music will not give offense, no matter how much it might otherwise violate the sacred laws of tonality.” Berg, “What is atonal?” (1930)

Quotes by Alban Berg


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Music by Alban Berg





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Books about Alban Berg




Some Recordings of Alban Berg's Piano Music


Maria Yudina (recorded in 1964)



Glenn Gould



Murray Perahia (recorded in 1987)



Maurizio Pollini (recorded in 1993)



Pierre-Laurent Aimard






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