Veksler J. Alban Berg and His Time, CPH

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978-5-7379-0402-9 Veksler J. Alban Berg and His Time. Experience of Documentary Biography, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

For the first time in Russian came out a large-scale work devoted Alban Berg (1895-1935), one of the greatest composers of the XX century.
Berg's biography based on documents (letters, diaries, sketches and memories of relatives and contemporaries, reviews), published in Russian for the first time. A significant number of archival sources, published for the first time in the world. The author recreates the cultural atmosphere of Vienna the XIX-XX centuries, the era of the First World War, 1920-1930s. For the first time highlights some important aspects of the activities and views of composers of the Viennese School. The appendix contains unique handwritten documents, including for the first time published in Russian and German. Young Berg notebook with records of his musical experience, as well as a collection of literary extracts, the full list of his compositions.
The book will be interesting to historians, musicians, as well as anyone interested in European culture of the XX century.

Pages: 1136.
Hardcover.
Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg; 2010