Berg’s Wozzeck Premieres in Berlin

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Article abstract: Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck demonstrated that it was possible to write an effective opera that utilized both a modern story and nontraditional compositional techniques.

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The beginning of the twentieth century was a time of tremendous upheaval in politics, science, technology, philosophy, and the arts. The first two decades of the century would see, among many dramatic events, the horrifying carnage of World War I; the fall of the Russian czars and the birth of the Soviet Union; Albert Einstein’s development of the...

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