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- Wozzeck is highly expressionist in subject material in that it expresses mental anguish and suffering and is not objective, presented, as it is, largely from Wozzeck's point of view, but it presents this expressionism within a cleverly constructed form.
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Wozzeck, opera in three acts by Austrian composer Alban Berg, who also wrote its German libretto, deriving the story from the unfinished play Woyzeck (the discrepancy in spelling was the result of a misreading of the manuscript) by Georg Büchner.
- Betsy Schwarm
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Berg's expressionist music emphasized Wozzeck's and other characters' emotions and thought processes, particularly Wozzeck's madness and alienation. Though atonal , it was not always without conventional function in its voice leading , extended tonicizations , or arguably tonal passages.
1836–37 Büchner composes his dramatic fragment Woyzeck. When he dies of typhoid fever at age 23 on February 19, 1837, Woyzeck is left incomplete. The work can be understood as either grittily realistic or morbidly expressionistic, but by either measure, it is an example of astonishing modernism for the age.
Best known as the libretto for Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck (performed 1925), the work was published in a revised version in 1922 under its original title, Woyzeck. Both naturalist and Expressionist elements added to the work’s continued interest for audiences in the late 20th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 3, 2010 · The style, experts say, is heavily influenced by Expressionism, an artistic movement seen and heard in the art, literature, film and music of the first few decades of the 20th century.
- Bruce Scott
Jan 23, 2019 · This technique, which was revolutionary in the theatre – and indeed rendered Woyzeck unstageable before the 20th century – is reminiscent of German expressionist films created immediately after the...
Berg’s expressionist music emphasized Wozzeck’s and other characters’ emotions and thought processes, particularly Wozzeck’s madness and alienation. The opera uses a variety of musical techniques to create unity and coherence.
