1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Alban Berg

Alban Berg Quotes

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with twelve-tone technique.

✵ 9. February 1885 – 24. December 1935
Alban Berg photo
Alban Berg: 2 quotes2 likes

Alban Berg Quotes

“The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.”

Alban Berg

Quoted by Donal Henahan in the New York Times Magazine, May 11, 1975.

“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Alban Berg

Quoted in Reich, Willi (1971). Schoenberg: A Critical Biography, p. 34. Translated by Leo Black.

Similar authors

Stefan Zweig photo
Stefan Zweig106
Austrian writer None
Elfriede Jelinek photo
Elfriede Jelinek50
Austrian writer None
Ludwig von Mises photo
Ludwig von Mises62
austrian economist None
Rudolf Steiner photo
Rudolf Steiner20
Austrian esotericist None
Erwin Schrödinger photo
Erwin Schrödinger67
Austrian physicist None
Wolfgang Pauli photo
Wolfgang Pauli35
Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner None
Ludwig Wittgenstein photo
Ludwig Wittgenstein228
Austrian-British philosopher None
Peter Handke photo
Peter Handke9
Austrian writer, playwright and film director None
Rainer Maria Rilke photo
Rainer Maria Rilke175
Austrian poet and writer None
Paul McCartney photo
Paul McCartney50
English singer-songwriter and composer None