Alban Berg Violin Concerto - Laaber

A Masterpiece of Modern Music:
Now appearing for the first time in
a facsimile edition for connoisseurs
and amateurs
Alban Berg
Violin Concerto
The Facsimile
Edited with a commentary by
Douglas Jarman
Available at a reduced subscription
price until 31 December 2011
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A seminal work of its era in a luxury facsimile edition
Though Alban Berg‘s Violin Concerto was con-
Alban Berg
ceived and initiated to satisfy a commission from
Violin Concerto - The Facsimile
the American violinist Louis Krasner, it soon turned into a monument to a departed loved one.
Facsimile of the autograph score preserved in
The death of Alma Mahler‘s daughter, Manon
the Library of Congress, Washington DC
Gropius, at the tender age of 18 led Berg to fi-
With a commentary in German and English by
nish the work quickly, taking a requiem as his
Douglas Jarman
model. But it also foreshadowed his own death
xvi + 88 pp, hardbound in large format € 178,–
shortly thereafter: by the time of its première in
(subscription price until 31 December 2011, then
1936 he had already passed away.
approx. € 198,–)
(Meisterwerke der Musik im Faksimile 22)
The Berg Violin Concerto, with its advanced hand-
ISBN 978–3–89007–758–1
ling of atonality and the 12-note method, is one
of the supreme creations of modern music, a vivid
When ordering the facsimile at our online shop
confrontation with the subject of death. Now this
at www.laaber-verlag.de you receive the fol-
seminal work of its era is being made available in
lowing CD for free: Alban Berg: Violinkonzert/
an entirely new way, with a bilingual commentary
Lyrische Suite/Drei Orchesterstücke, op. 6. Mit
in German and English. A must for every lover of
Rebecca Hirsch (Violine) und dem Netherlands
fine music!
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