In one work by this composer, a single B note is amplified or diminished depending on how a character is murdering someone.
In one work by this composer, a single B note is amplified or diminished depending on how a character is murdering someone. The performance of this composer's Opus 4, a song cycle setting to music texts by Peter von Altenberg, caused a riot at its March 31, 1913 premiere, and he borrowed from Mahler's Sixth Symphony the hammer blow heard in his Opus 6, Three Orchestral Pieces. Scholarship by George Perle has shown that an affair with Franz Werfel's sister was partly the inspiration for this composer's (*) Lyric Suite, whose first movement became his first extended 12-tone composition. Plays by Frank Wedekind and Georg Buchner were the subject operatic works by this composer, who like Anton Webern was a student of Schoenberg. For 10 points, name this composer of Wozzeck and Lulu.
In one work by this composer, a single B note is amplified or diminished depending on how a character is murdering someone.
Alban Berg