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Floros, Constantin

Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters

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The secret story behind the Lyric Suite
In the fall of 1976, 14 letters by Alban Berg, renowned composer of the Second Viennese School, were discovered in the posthumous papers of Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, wife of a Prague industrialist and sister of Franz Werfel, the well-known Austro-Czech writer. In the 1920s Berg gained international notoriety with his opera Wozzeck and the Lyric Suite, which was largely inspired by his relationship with Fuchs.
The secret letters were delivered to Hanna surreptitiously by Theodor Adorno and Alma Mahler Werfel. They were brought to New York by Hanna on her flight from Nazi persecution, and were eventually found in her estate after her death. First discovered by George Perle, then deciphered and transcribed in German by Constantin Floros, they appear here in English for the first time.
Table of contents:
Introduction; Note on Translation
1. The 'Matter of Hanna Fuchs'; 2. Inventory and Chronology of the Official and the Secret Letters; 3. Alban Berg's Correspondence with Hanna and Herbert Fuchs-Robettin; 4. The History of an Unhappy Love; 5. The Lyric Suite; 6. 'Whom but you does it concern . . .'; Afterword: Hanna and Helene
Appendix: Two Letters by Theodore W. Adorno to Helene Berg; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Review:
'When, on December 23, 1935, Alban Berg died of blood poisoning at the age of 50 in a hospital in Vienna, few would have guessed that 50 years later he would be reckoned among the classics of the New Music. . . . The international music world is deeply interested in both his work and his personality. This is no surprise, considering that nearly his entire oeuvre is autobiographically determined.' from the introduction

Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR

Ausstattung: 152 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 32 figures - 140mm x 216mm

ISBN: 0253349664

Preis: 19,95 €

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