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Berg - Little Waltz in G Major (Score with Analysis)

Work: Little Waltz in G Major by Alban Berg Performed by: PianoExplained Instrument: Yamaha P125 Digital Piano Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 – 1935) was one of the most important Austrian composers in the early 20th century, despite his relatively small set of works. As a child, Berg had a more avid interest in literature than in music, contemplating to become a writer one day. Although Berg had had prior piano lessons, he self-taught composition and began composing at the age of 15, in around 1900. He began to study theory, harmony, and counterpoint under the guidance of Arnold Schoenberg in 1904, where he wrote his first piano sonata (Op.1) and several songs, including the Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder). Naturally, Berg’s early works were heavily influenced by Schoenberg’s teaching that the unity of a composition comes from the fact that all aspects of the piece originate from one central idea. When Berg’s Wozzeck received public success in 1924, he finally decided to become a composer and gave up being a writer. Wozzeck remains to be one of the most important operas written in the early 20th century. His consequent works, Lyric Suite (1926) and Kammerkonzert (1925), were well known for their deliberately designed cyphers and hidden programs. It was around this time when Berg began to explore the concept of tone clusters, which is a chord that consists of 3 or more adjacent tones in a scale. Berg died at the age of 50, in 1935, from blood poisoning. As a pupil of Schoenberg, Berg adopted some of his ideas, including the idea of developing variations, and twelve-tone techniques. Berg is seen as a more emotional counterpart to Schoenberg’s take on the twelve-tone system, which successfully helped him gain popularity. Berg also wrote music that exhibits Romantic lyricism, with a blend of atonality, bridging the Viennese tradition with the newer, more modern ideas. Little Waltz in G Major is an uncatalogued / un-numbered composition written by Berg in 1907 or 1908. The Romantic tendency in this piece is strong, and the twelve-tone technique is employed mostly partially and very subtly. Judging from the tone, simplicity, and the length of the piece, it can be conjectured that this piece was composed early in Berg’s career, when he was composing his two volumes of Jugendlieder (Songs for the Youth) and was experimenting with the viability of blending the twelve-tone technique into Romanticism. ______________________ Follow me on Instagram where I post uncommonly performed classical piano music:   / pianoexplained