Music in the Weimar Republic: 3D Gallery

Alban Berg

Alban Berg was born on February 9th, 1885, and died on December 4th, 1935. Alban Berg was part of the "Novembergruppe"and worked together with Arnold Schönberg for several years. Some of his notable works include: Wozzeck, Chamber Concerto, Lulu, and Five Orchestral Songs. What separated Berg's music from the rest was Berg's use of expressionism in his music.

Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schönberg was an Austrian born composer, who lived in America in his later life. He created several new methods of musical composition, including atonality, serialism, and the 12 tone row. Some of his notable works include: Verklärte Nacht, Moses und Aron, Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Pierrot Lunaire, and Expectation. What separated Schönberg from the rest was his postromantic style, and his use of modernism.

The Novembergruppe

The November Group was a group of various artists from many forms of media. It was formed in December 1918 by Max Pechstein and César Klein. It took its name from the month of the Weimar Revolution. It hoped to bring a new unity in art, and all of its forms. The group was known for its abstract forms of arts. Among the leading figures were the architects Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Poelzig, and Bruno Taut; the painters El Lissitzky, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Müller, and Heinrich Campendonck; the sculptors Gerhard Marcks and Rudolf Belling; the artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy; the filmmakers Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling; the composers Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, and Kurt Weill; and the dramatist Bertolt Brecht.

Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill was a German Jewish composer, born in 1900. He was known for his particular jazzy style of music composition, and some of his most notable works include: Zaubernacht, one touch of venus, and the road of promise.

Wozzeck

Wozzeck was an opera composed by Alban Berg which premiered in 1925. It was composed between 1914 and 1922.

The plot depicts the everyday life of soldiers and the townspeople of a rural German-speaking town. Prominent themes of militarism, callousness, social exploitation, and sadism are brutally depicted.

Flatford Mill

Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]

Novembergruppe

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]

The Hireling Shepherd

This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.

Ophelia

Wozzeck was an opera composed by Alban Berg which premiered in 1925. It was composed between 1914 and 1922.

The plot depicts the everyday life of soldiers and the

townspeople of a rural German-speaking town. Prominent themes of militarism, callousness, social exploitation, and sadism are brutally presented.

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]

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Music in the Weimar Republic