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Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Music in the Twilight of the Habsburg Empire; Chapter 1. Two Viennese Families: The Bergs and Nahowskis; Berg?s Early Life; The Specter of Ill Health; The Marie Scheuchl Affair; The Nahowski Family; Helene Nahowski and Paul Kammerer; Berg?s Courtship of Helene Nahowski; Chapter 2. Berg?s Musical Apprenticeship, 1899-1911; Studies with Schoenberg; Berg?s Early Songs; Seven Early Songs (1907); Four Songs, Op. 2; Music for Piano; Piano Sonata, Op. 1; String Quartet, Op. 3; Chapter 3. A Struggle for Recognition, 1911-15; Before the War; Berg?s Work for Schoenberg; The Scandal Concert; Berg as Writer; Five Orchestral Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg, Op. 4; Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5; Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6; Chapter 4. The War and Its Aftermath, 1915-22; Patriotic Enthusiasm; Berg?s Conscription; Superstition and Pseudo-Science; Postwar Burdens; A Change of Profession; Chapter 5. Wozzeck; Operatic Plans and Uncertainties; From Play to Libretto; A Wozzeck Chronology; The Music of Wozzeck; Wozzeck on Stage; Chapter 6. International Acclaim, 1923-5; Wozzeck Triumphant; The Continuing Quest for Health; New Directions in Post-War Music: Neoclassicism and Dodecaphony; Chamber Concerto; Chapter 7. Secret Programs with Twelve Tones, 1925-7; The Hanna Fuchs Affair; A Return to Composing; Lyric Suite for String Quartet; Chapter 8. The Celebrated Composer, 1928-34; Summer Retreats and Family Entanglements; Flight from Reality; Berg?s Music and the Nazi Threat; A Musical Digression: Der Wein; Chapter 9. Lulu; The Search for Lulu; Wedekind?s Lulu Plays; Berg?s Libretto for Lulu; A Chronology of Composition; The Music of Lulu; Prospects for Staging; Symphonic Pieces from the Opera Lulu; Chapter 10. Berg?s Final Year, 1935; Berg?s Financial Crisis; Political Turmoil and Austrofascism; The Violin Concerto; Berg?s Final Illness; Chapter 11. Helene Berg and the Management of Berg?s Legacy, 1936-76; The Completion of Lulu; Bereavement, Grief, and Helene Berg?s Eternal Marriage; Helene Berg?s Life Under the Nazis, 1938-45; Berg?s Musical Manuscripts and Letters; Toward a Berg Biography; The Alban Berg Foundation; Helene Berg?s Last Years; Epilogue: Berg the Outsider; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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