Seven Early Songs

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Seven Early Songs is a collection of early 20th-century art songs by Alban Berg that showcases his transition from late-Romantic lyricism toward the emerging language of musical modernism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song cycle
vocal composition
associatedWith Second Viennese School NERFINISHED
catalogueNumber without opus number (WoO)
composer Alban Berg NERFINISHED
compositionEnd circa 1908
compositionStart circa 1905
countryOfOrigin Austria
firstPerformance orchestral version premiered 1928 in Vienna
genre Lied
art song
hasPart Die Nachtigall NERFINISHED
Im Zimmer NERFINISHED
Liebesode NERFINISHED
Nacht NERFINISHED
Schilflied NERFINISHED
Sommertage NERFINISHED
Traumgekrönt NERFINISHED
influencedBy Arnold Schoenberg NERFINISHED
Gustav Mahler NERFINISHED
Richard Strauss NERFINISHED
keyCharacteristic transition from tonal late-Romantic idiom to atonal modernism
language German
lyricsLanguage German
movement late Romantic music
musical modernism
numberOfParts 7
orchestrationDate 1928
period early 20th century
placeOfFirstPerformance Vienna NERFINISHED
publisher Universal Edition NERFINISHED
scoringDetail high voice and piano in original version
soprano and orchestra in orchestral version
style expressionism
late-Romantic lyricism
textBy Carl Hauptmann NERFINISHED
Johannes Schlaf NERFINISHED
Nikolaus Lenau NERFINISHED
Otto Erich Hartleben NERFINISHED
Paul Hohenberg NERFINISHED
Rainer Maria Rilke NERFINISHED
Theodor Storm NERFINISHED
vocalForces voice and orchestra
voice and piano

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Alban Berg notableWork Seven Early Songs