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Berg: Violin Concerto
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Composer: Alban Berg
Editor: Douglas Jarman
Format: Solo Part with Piano Reduction
Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Violin
Originally for: Violin, Orchestra
ISMN: 979-000805615-4
Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
Urtext / Critical Edition
Alban Berg's _**Violin Concerto**_ was written in 1935 (the score is dated 11 August 1935). It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece.
The piece stemmed from a commission from the violinist Louis Krasner. When he first received the commission, Berg was working on his opera _Lulu_ , and he did not begin work on the concerto for some months. The event that spurred him into writing was the death by polio of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler (once Gustav Mahler's wife) and Walter Gropius. Berg set _Lulu_ aside to write the concerto, which he dedicated "To the memory of an angel".
Berg worked on the piece very quickly, completing it within a few months; it is thought that his working on the concerto was largely responsible for his failing to complete _Lulu_ before his death on 24 December 1935 (the violin concerto was the last work that Berg completed). The work was premiered after the composer's death, with Krasner playing the solo part, on 19 April 1936, in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
Category: 20th Century, Alban Berg, Austria, Douglas Jarman, Modernist Era, Postmodern Era, Romantic Era, Strings, Violin, Violin & Orchestra
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