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Jan 6, 2015 · Alban Berg (1885-1935). Profession: Composer, pedagogue. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Second Viennese School. In 1935 Alban Berg (1885-1935) wrote a violin concert ‘Dem Andenken eines Engels’ in memory of Manon Gropius (1916-1935). First performance 19-04-1936 in Barcelona by the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner.
Walter Gropius (May 18th 1883 - July 5th 1969) is the inventor of the Bauhaus. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879-1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916.
Nov 11, 2019 · Although Berg began to take tentative steps towards the Violin Concerto, the creative catalyst for the work came in the spring of 1935 with the death from polio of Manon Gropius, the eighteen-year-old daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler Werfel. Berg considered the Violin Concerto to be a “Requiem for Manon.”
May 13, 2024 · In 1915 Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879–1964), widow of Gustav Mahler.Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916. When Manon died of polio at age 18, in 1935, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her (it is inscribed "to the memory of an angel").
Title: Walter Gropius and his daughter Manon Gropius at Dessau. Date: 1927. Physical Details: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. Creator: Unidentified. Forms part of: Reginald R. Isaacs papers, circa 1842-1991, bulk 1928-1991. Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
An event that spurred him to start the concerto was the death by polio of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, daughter of Walter Gropius and Berg's friend and patron Alma Mahler (Gustav Mahler's widow). Berg set Lulu aside to write the concerto, which he dedicated "To the memory of an angel"; he identified the "angel" to Alma as Manon. Alma felt ...
Manon Gropius. Artistic muse. Alma Manon Gropius; Alma Manon Anna Justina Carolina Gropius; Statements. instance of. human. 1 reference. imported from Wikimedia project.
