February 9 - Alban Berg; Johann Aegidius Bach (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for February 9th are here: Alban Berg (2020), Carmen Miranda (2021), Alban Berg (2022)

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Alban Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was a great Austrian composer mostly in atonal and serial styles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emily Dickinson Attends Wozzeck

The curtain rose —  and I was there —

Expectant as a Bee;

‘Til Spirit told me in Despair —

There wasn’t any — Key.

If Death had come to me that day

With Comfort in his Pack,

He could have soothed my Soul away

From Wozzeck’s --- bric-a-brac.

 

 

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Johann Aegidius Bach (9 February 1645 – November 1716) was organist, violist, and municipal orchestra director of Erfurt, Germany. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short Question

Did Bach (Johann Aegidius)

Find life in Erfurt tedious?

 

 

 

 

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