2007-12-12 00:12:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel) was completed on 11 August 1935.
The world première was on 19 April 1936 in Barcelona at the ISCM festival. The soloist was Louis Krasner and the conductor Hermann Scherchen.
This means that, sadly, Berg never heard in performance the work which has become his most popular and often played, as he died on Christmas Eve 1935 from septicaemia derived from an infected insect bite.
2007-12-12 01:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by del_icious_manager 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thanks for the question and answer - The Berg Violin Concerto is my favorite piece of 20th century music.
2007-12-12 04:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by hfrankmann 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best I could find out he died in Vienna only a couple of months after completing the concerto, so I would think it a fair guess that it was also composed there.
Edit: Hey, what's with the thumbs down? I thought he was asking where it was composed.
2007-12-12 00:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋