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Alban Berg

1885 - 1935

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Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( BAIRG; Austrian German: [ˈalbaːn ˈbɛrg]; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) 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 oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure". Berg was born and lived in Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alban Berg is the 82nd most popular composer, the 80th most popular biography from Austria (down from 71st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Composer.

Alban Berg is most famous for his opera Lulu.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alban Berg ranks 82 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Lehár, Jules Massenet, Hans Zimmer, César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Josquin des Prez. After him are Leoš Janáček, Johann Pachelbel, Heinrich Schütz, Luigi Cherubini, Luigi Boccherini, and John Williams.

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Among people born in 1885, Alban Berg ranks 7. Before him are Niels Bohr, D. H. Lawrence, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, and Clementine Churchill. After him are Karen Blixen, György Lukács, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, François Mauriac, and Hermann Hoth. Among people deceased in 1935, Alban Berg ranks 11. Before him are Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Dreyfus, T. E. Lawrence, Paul Signac, Victor Grignard, and Emmy Noether. After him are Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, Charles Richet, André Citroën, and Henri Barbusse.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alban Berg ranks 80 out of 1,424. Before him are Anna Freud (1895), Fritz Pregl (1869), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Handke (1942), and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906). After him are Fritz Lang (1890), Albert II of Germany (1397), Mariana of Austria (1634), Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842), Josef Stefan (1835), and Robert Musil (1880).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Alban Berg ranks 9. Before him are Franz Schubert (1797), Johann Strauss II (1825), Johann Strauss I (1804), Anton Bruckner (1824), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), and Anton Webern (1883). After him are Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Eduard Strauss (1835), and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865).

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