Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)
by Alban Berg
Seven early songs for voice and piano composed 1905–08, later revised and orchestrated in 1928. Texts by Carl Hauptmann (Nacht), Nikolaus Lenau (Schilflied), Theodor Storm (Die Nachtigall), Rainer Maria Rilke (Traumgekrönt), Johannes Schlaf (Im Zimmer), Otto Erich Hartleben (Liebesode), and Paul Hohenberg (Sommertage). These are late-Romantic songs of great beauty and sophistication, showing Berg's mastery of the Brahms–Wolf–Strauss song tradition before his move into atonality. The piano versions are frequently performed as an alternative to the orchestrated versions.
Works in this Collection (7)
- Nacht (Night) (Seven Early Songs) No. 1 Difficulty
- Schilflied (Seven Early Songs) No. 2 Difficulty
- Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale) (Seven Early Songs) No. 3 Difficulty
- Traumgekrönt (Dream-Crowned) (Seven Early Songs) No. 4 Difficulty
- Im Zimmer (In the Room) (Seven Early Songs) No. 5 Difficulty
- Liebesode (Love Ode) (Seven Early Songs) No. 6 Difficulty
- Sommertage (Summer Days) (Seven Early Songs) No. 7 Difficulty