Previous posts for February 9th are here: Alban Berg (2020), Carmen Miranda (2021), Alban Berg (2022), Alban Berg; Johann Aegidius Bach (2023), Alban Berg (2024), and Alban Berg; Ferdinando Carulli (2025)
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Alban Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was a great Austrian composer mostly in atonal and serial styles.
You Say Woyzeck, I Say Wozzeck
When Alban read Woyzeck (the play),
He was gobstruck and blown away,
So he set the whole text
In a style that has vexed
The public from then to today.
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Strong Medicine
Though Wozzeck was frequently heard
It was never what patrons preferred;
But there always were some,
(Thought there's nothing to hum),
Whose emotions were shaken and stirred.
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