WozzeckIn 1972 Elias Canetti said: 'with Wozzeckm Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature'. The same can be said of Berg's opera, as revolutionary in the history of music in our century as in opera in particular. Mark DeVoto and Theo Hirsbrunner discuss why this infinitely complex and formal score perfectly suits the confused and disordered nature of the play. In his famous essay about the opera (written in 1968, but given here for the first time in English) Theador Adorno shows how what seems fragmentory in the text is actually complete, and how the music responds to the words; Kenneth Segar offers a new interpretation of the play in the light of the most recent Buchner research. Also for the first time, the complete edition of the play as Berg knew it is set out with a translation so that readers can see not only what he kept for his liberetto but also what he omitted. This unique source material is complemented by a series of critical reactions to the first London production in 1952 illustrating the controversy which has surrounded the opera since its 1925 Berlin premiere, and the extent to which our aesthetics have changed over the last forty years. |
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... composer in western Europe , was severely ill , and depressed by the suffering of his country ; not until 1915 would he begin to write music again , in one final burst of creativity before his early death . Younger than any of these was ...
... composer in western Europe , was severely ill , and depressed by the suffering of his country ; not until 1915 would he begin to write music again , in one final burst of creativity before his early death . Younger than any of these was ...
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... composer's sensitive face . - Joan Chissell Letters to the Editor May , 1952 May I be permitted to rush in where your five critics of Wozzeck feared to tread ? I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the work is a failure , and ...
... composer's sensitive face . - Joan Chissell Letters to the Editor May , 1952 May I be permitted to rush in where your five critics of Wozzeck feared to tread ? I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the work is a failure , and ...
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... composer who more than any other delighted the Paris of Napoleon III . The Castrati in Opera Angus Heriot The fullest account ever written of the rise of the castrato singer during the baroque period and his decline in the late 18th ...
... composer who more than any other delighted the Paris of Napoleon III . The Castrati in Opera Angus Heriot The fullest account ever written of the rise of the castrato singer during the baroque period and his decline in the late 18th ...
Contents
an Interpretation Kenneth Segar | 15 |
On the Characteristics of Wozzeck Theodor W Adorno | 37 |
Thematic Guide | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Act Three Alban Berg Andres Andrew Porter Angus McBean APPRENTICE Archiv Universal Edition Arnold Schönberg Augen barracks Blut Büchner Büchner's play Caspar Neher Change of scene characters child chord Christel Goltz composer Covent Garden dance donkey dramatic Drum Major einmal Erich Kleiber Esel Franz Frederick Dalberg geht gentlemen girls Gott guter Mensch hab's Halli Hallo hand heiss Herr Doctor Herr Hauptmann Herren heut Hopp human immortal jetzt Kerl Komm kommt läuft Leut libretto Mann Margret Marie's room Marko Rothmüller Menschen Metropolitan Opera murder muss Natur night Opus orchestra Otakar Kraus performance pissing première Ringel Scene Five Scene Four Scene Three schön Schönberg score sehen shaving the Captain singing Soldaten soldiers soll Sonne spoken stage steht symphony Teufel theme todt Tom Hammond tonal Translation by Andrew Unsterblich viel Vienna Wagner Walter Berry Weib Weibsbild Welt wieder Wozzeck zwei