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
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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
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art song ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Die Nachtigall
NERFINISHED
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Im Zimmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Liebesode NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacht NERFINISHED ⓘ Schilflied NERFINISHED ⓘ Sommertage NERFINISHED ⓘ Traumgekrönt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arnold Schoenberg
NERFINISHED
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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
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soprano and orchestra in orchestral version ⓘ |
| style |
expressionism
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late-Romantic lyricism ⓘ |
| textBy |
Carl Hauptmann
NERFINISHED
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Johannes Schlaf NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikolaus Lenau NERFINISHED ⓘ Otto Erich Hartleben NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Hohenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainer Maria Rilke NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodor Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalForces |
voice and orchestra
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voice and piano ⓘ |
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