Berg's Wozzeck

Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner''s play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Berg''s Wozzeck traces the composer''s slow but determined progress. Using compositional sketches, diaries, notebooks and other archival material, author Patricia Hall reveals the challenges Berg faced--from...