“Frisch, Fromm, Fröhlich, Frei.”The Deutscher Turnerbund and the Berg 'Violin Concerto'

Musicologica Austriaca

关键词: 20th century;    atonality;    Alban Berg;    retrogrades;    Second Viennese School;    Violin concerto;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Although Berg himself made public the nature of the extra-musical stimulus behind the composition of the 'Violin Concerto,' through both his dedication “Dem Andenken eines Engels” and the article published by his biographer Willi Reich, the sketches for the work show that he originally planned to base the work on the motto of the Deutscher Turnerbund. Since the Turnerbund had strong links with the NSDAP and was banned in Austria in 1935 when the 'Violin Concerto' was written, Berg’s intention to use the motto raises questions about his attitude toward and relationship with Nazi cultural policy and his efforts to survive as an artist in the mid-1930s. The article proposes a possible explanation based on Berg’s consistent use of retrogrades and palindromes in his other works as symbols of denial and negation.

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