Alban Berg
09.02.1885—24.12.1935

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Alban Berg
An Leukon | G minor | for higher voice and string orchestra

Work Details
Key: G minor
Year of composition: 1908
Year of arrangement: 2006
Scored for: for higher voice and string orchestra
Composer: Alban Berg
Arranger: Chris Gordon
Text Author: Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
Original Language: Deutsch
Soloinstruments/Soloists: voice
Instrumentation details: violin I; violin II; viola; violoncello; contrabass
Duration (min): 2
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World Première
Location: St. Andrew's Church Surbiton, Surrey / Great Britain
Date: 18.11.1978
Orchestra: Kingston Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Walter Wurzburger
Main Soloists: Kathryn Harries, S
Work Introduction

Four Berg Song Orchestrations
Chris Gordon

An Leukon (Gleim) (1907)
Die Sorglichen (Falke) (1907)
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (Storm) (1907)
Das stille Königreich (Busse) (1908)

Audiences have loved Berg's orchestrations of his Seven Early Songs for as long as they have known them. They [...]

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