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
catalogueNumber without opus number (WoO)
composer Alban Berg
compositionEnd circa 1908
compositionStart circa 1905
countryOfOrigin Austria
firstPerformance orchestral version premiered 1928 in Vienna
genre Lied
art song
hasPart Die Nachtigall
Im Zimmer
Liebesode
Nacht
Schilflied
Sommertage
Traumgekrönt
influencedBy Arnold Schoenberg
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
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
publisher Universal Edition
scoringDetail high voice and piano in original version
soprano and orchestra in orchestral version
style expressionism
late-Romantic lyricism
textBy Carl Hauptmann
Johannes Schlaf
Nikolaus Lenau
Otto Erich Hartleben
Paul Hohenberg
Rainer Maria Rilke
Theodor Storm
vocalForces voice and orchestra
voice and piano

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Alban Berg notableWork Seven Early Songs