Militarism and Terror Set to Music
De Voto, Mark: Alban Bergs Drei Orchesterstücke op. 6: Struktur, Thematik und ihr Verhältnis zu Wozzeck, in: Grasberger, Franz/Stefan, Rudolf (Hrsg.): Alban Berg Studien, Bd. 2, Wien 1981, 97-107
Hilmar, Ernst: Wozzeck von Alban Berg. Entstehung – erste Erfolge – Repressionen (1914 – 1935), Wien 1975
Reich, Willi: A guide to Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck. New York 1932
Tonaufnahme "3 Orchesterstücke" Alban Berg. Unter: http://klassik.s-fahl.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55... (20.06.2014)
Quotes:
„It is not only the fate ...“: Hilmar, Ernst: Wozzeck von Alban Berg, 21(Translation)
„There’s a bit of me ...“: Berg, Helene (Hrsg.): Alban Berg, Briefe an seine Frau, München/Wien 1965, 376 (Translation)
„tremendous impatience and restlessness ...“ zitiert nach: Scherliess, Volker: Alban Berg, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1975, 60 (Translation)
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