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The Music Division holds several music manuscripts in Alban Berg's hand. This page describes the Music Division's unique holdings: Berg's holograph manuscripts and sketches for his own works.
The Music Division holds holograph manuscripts and sketches for one of Alban Berg's most significant and frequently performed compositions: the opera Wozzeck. The following titles offer a representative sample and link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
Wozzeck : Oper in 3 Akten (15 Scenen) : Op. 7 by The William Remsen Strickland Collection also includes two pages of holograph manuscript sketches from Wozzeck.
Additional major works for which the Music Division has Berg's manuscripts are the Violin Concerto and the Lyric Suite. The following titles offer a representative sample and link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
Fehler in der Partitur (event. Stimmen corrigieren) by The Music Division also holds manuscripts for several of Berg's early songs. All but one, Viel Träume, were acquired through the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation collection. The following song titles link to fully digitized manuscripts:
