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The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck

The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck
By George Perle

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #701999 in Books
  • Published on: 1989-10-04
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 268 pages

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About the Author
George Perle is a distinguished composer and Professor Emeritus of Music at the City University of New York. His books include Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern (Sixth Edition, California, 1991); The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 1, Wozzeck (California, 1980) and Volume 2, Lulu (California, 1985); and The Listening Composer (California, 1990). He has been a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.


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Detailed analysis of Berg's first opera.5
The author has written perhaps the definitive analysis of Berg's Wozzeck. Mandatory backgound reading for true students of Berg's idoms.