Music taken from LuLu, the second opera, in 1934. A suite of five
movements of a complex atonal composition. It was FP in Berlin in November
of 1934. It includes Lulu's song for a soprano with orchestra in the third
movement and the concluding adagio. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904).
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Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
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