Previous posts for February 9th are here: Alban Berg (2020), Carmen Miranda (2021), Alban Berg (2022), Alban Berg; Johann Aegidius Bach (2023), and Alban Berg (2024)
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Alban Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was a great Austrian composer mostly in atonal and serial styles.
Mixed Metaphors in Three Limericks on Berg’s Violin Concerto
Like many of Berg's works, the piece combines the twelve-tone technique, typical of serialist music learned from his teacher Arnold Schoenberg, with passages written in a freer, more tonal style. The score integrates serialism and tonality in a remarkable fashion. – Wikipedia, s.v. “Violin Concerto (Berg)”
When Berg and the New Viennese
Were trying to write without keys,
They learned how to cope
With that slippery slope
From Schoenberg’s atonal decrees.
A slippery slope without skis
Cannot be descended with ease;
An unlucky spill
On an atonal hill
Can paralyze more than it frees.
But the series in Berg guarantees
Coherence in certain degrees,
When he spurns the security
Of serial purity
It’s a calm in the unsettled seas.
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Ferdinando Carulli (9 February 1770 – 17 February 1841) was an Italian guitarist and composer of music for that instrument.
Classical Class
His most influential work, the "Method, op. 27", published in 1810, contains pieces still widely used today in training students of the classical guitar. -- Wikipedia
Perhaps with these verses you’re newly
Acquainted with Signor Carulli,
Who was a remarkable star
And composer of works for guitar.
He composed with impressive facility
For players of average ability,
And guitarists, as students are truly
In debt to Ferdinando Carulli.
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