Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions and Credits xv
5. Berg’s Worlds 1
6. Hermann Watznauer’s Biography of Alban Berg 33
7. A Descriptive Overview of Berg’s Night (Nocturne) 91
8. Berg and the Orchestra 133
9. “ . . . deinen Wuchs wie Musik”: Portraits, Identities, and the Dynamics of Seeing in Berg’s Operatic Sphere 163
10. “Remembrance of things that are to come”: Some Reflections on Berg’s Palindromes 195
11. 1934, Alban Berg, and the Shadow of Politics: Documents of a Troubled Year 223
12. Alban Berg zum Gedenken: The Berg Memorial Issue of 23: A Viennese Music Journal 269
13. Alban Berg and the Memory of Modernism 299
14. Index 345
15. Notes on the Contributors 359
16. Backmatter 363