| Sieben frühe Lieder Seven Early Songs | |
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| Lieder byAlban Berg | |
 The composer, sketched byEmil Stumpp in 1927 | |
| Text | poems by Carl Hauptmann,Nikolaus Lenau,Theodor Storm,Rainer Maria Rilke,Johannes Schlaf,Otto Erich Hartleben, Paul Hohenberg |
| Language | German |
| Composed | 1905 (1905)–08 |
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TheSeven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder) (c. 1905 – 1908), are early compositions ofAlban Berg, written while he was under the tutelage ofArnold Schoenberg. They are an interesting synthesis combining Berg's heritage of pre-Schoenberg song writing with the rigour and undeniable influence of Schoenberg. The writing very much carries with it the heritage ofRichard Strauss (although the influences of a number of other composers can be discerned –Robert Schumann,Gustav Mahler, andHugo Wolf for example, as well asClaude Debussy's harmonic palette in evidence in "Nacht"), through the expansiveness of gesture and 'opening of new vistas,' and that ofRichard Wagner. The songs were first written for a medium voice and piano;[1] the composer himself revised them in 1928 for high voice and orchestra.[2]
The seven songs are:[3]
The orchestral version is scored for high voice (soprano) and:[2]
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