Constantin Floros: Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters, Gebunden

Blurb

In the fall of 1976, 14 letters by Alban Berg, renowned composer of theSecond Viennese School, were discovered in the posthumous papers of HannaFuchs-Robettin, wife of a Prague industrialist and sister of Franz Werfel, thewell-known Austro-Czech writer. In the 1920s Berg gained international notorietywith his opera Wozzeck and the Lyric Suite, which was largely inspired by hisrelationship with Fuchs. The secret letters were delivered toHanna surreptitiously by Theodor Adorno and Alma Mahler Werfel. They were brought toNew York by Hanna on her flight from Nazi persecution, and were eventually found inher estate after her death. First discovered by George Perle, then deciphered andtranscribed in German by Constantin Floros, they appear here in English for thefirst time.