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Hans Dietrich: "Wozzek", photo of Alban Berg with singers of the performance at the Vienna State Opera House, 1930

From left to right: Georg Maikl as ‘Captain’, Josef von Manowarda as 'Wozzek', Hermann Wiedemann as ‘Doctor’. Sitting in the middle, Alban Berg.

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    Militarism and Terror Set to Music

    While Richard Strauss’s musical output continued apparently uninfluenced and unimpressed by the terror of the First World War, there are two major connecting lines to be drawn between the music of Alban Berg and the war.