Alban Berg quotes
Alban Berg was an Austrian composer associated with the Second Viennese School. His innovative works blend Romantic lyricism with modernist atonality, creating emotionally powerful music. He is best remembered for his operas "Wozzeck" and "Lulu," which had a major influence on 20th-century music. Here are 5 of his quotes:
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.
Alban Berg
If...Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.
Alban Berg
Alban Berg
Occupation: Austrian Composer
Born: February 9, 1885
Died: December 24, 1935
Quotes count: 5
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