Alban
Berg's Piano Sonata Opus 1 may very well be the most formidable initial work of
any composer in the history of music. There were five preliminary one-movement
sonatas—none of which were fully completed—preceding Opus 1, which was
completed in 1908 and published in 1910. Certainly in the piano sonata, Berg is
working within the late-Romantic world, yet he places the sonata in a new idiom
in which Schoenberg's principle of 'developing variations' is fully employed to
generate structural units in a constant state of transformation. Ieva Jokubaviciute
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Alban Berg
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Alban Berg's Piano Sonata Opus 1 may very well be the most formidable initial work of any composer in the history of music. There were five preliminary one-movement sonatas—none of which were fully completed—preceding Opus 1, which was completed in 1908 and published in 1910. Certainly in the piano sonata, Berg is working within the late-Romantic world, yet he places the sonata in a new idiom in which Schoenberg's principle of 'developing variations' is fully employed to generate structural units in a constant state of transformation. Ieva Jokubaviciute
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