Alban Berg

Alban Berg (1885-1935) was an Austrian composer, born and died in Vienna. A pupil of Arnold Schoenberg from 1904, he belongs with Schoenberg and Anton Webern to the so-called Second Viennese School. His music joins a late-Romantic expressive range to atonal and, later, twelve-tone writing. His opera Wozzeck, completed in 1922, was first staged in December 1925 under Erich Kleiber. Berg died of blood poisoning that followed an infected insect sting. His Altenberg Lieder were heard in 1913 at a concert conducted by Schoenberg. Other works include the String Quartet op.