grgr (21): wozzeck

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "he'd begun to talk the way the captain in  w o z z e c k  sings, his voice 
  breaking suddenly up into the highest registers of hysteria." (p. 465)


  this refers to alban berg's opera version of georg büchner's famous 
  fragmentary play. during his period of free atonality berg worked on this 
  opera between 1917 and 1921. the opening night was in berlin in 1925. this 
  beautiful work of art became the most successfull opera of the neue musik. 
  adorno, who elaborated his composition skills with berg, wrote about wozzeck:
  "the building is so perfect, that it requires of the listener nothing else but 
  the close willingness to receive what it lavishly gives for a present. (s)he 
  shouldn't frighten away from a love, which, without backing, seeks the human 
  beings there, where there are most needy". (m.o.p.a.t. from "berg. der meister 
  des kleinen übergangs" [1968]).
                                           nichtidentisch: kai frederik