Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small
Berg c. 1930
Watschenkonzert [slapping concert], caricature in Die Zeit [de] (Vienna), 6 April 1913
Sketch of Berg by Emil Stumpp
Bust of Berg at Schiefling am See, Carinthia, Austria
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone co
Alban Berg
…and structure". Berg was born and lived in Vienna. He began to compose at the age of fifteen. He studied counterpoint, music theory and harmony with Arnold Schoenberg between 1904 and 1911, and adopted his principles of developing variation and the twelve-tone technique. Berg's major works include the operas Wozzeck…
Schönberg in Payerbach, 1903
Portrait of Schoenberg by Richard Gerstl, 1905
Gerstl's Schönberg Family, 1907