Alban Berg

Alban Berg (Vienna, February 9, 1885 – there, December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer.
Berg studied from 1904 to 1910 with Arnold Schönberg and is counted together with his teacher and Anton Webern among the Second Viennese School. Berg married the singer Helene Nahowski (1885-1976), a daughter of Anna Nahowski and, as is generally assumed, of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Berg first made use of free atonality and later of strict twelve-tone techniques, and combined this with a gestural language that, notwithstanding its expressionistic character, regularly recalls the late-romantic music of Gustav Mahler.

Approximately 140 songs from his youth, of which were published:
Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder), for low voice and piano, 1905-1908 (revised and orchestrated in 1928; piano version 1928)
Nacht (text Carl Hauptmann)
Schilflied (text Nikolaus Lenau)
Die Nachtigall (text Theodor Storm)
Traumgekrönt (text Rainer Maria Rilke)
In Zimmer (text Johannes Schlaf)
Liebesode (text Otto Erich Hartleben)
Sommertage (text P. Hohenberg)
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (text Th.