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Wozzeck100: DFG Project Team Visits Vienna

The Dortmund team from the DFG project “Neue Musik vermitteln. Kommunikative, mediale und performative Strategien Musikschaffender (1918–1938)” at the Wozzeck100 symposium hosted by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, in collaboration with the Vienna State Opera and the Alban Berg Foundation

What role did publishers play in the Weimar Republic? Who influenced and advised Berg during the composition of *Wozzeck*? What other venues, besides the opera house, were used for the premieres of operas?

These and other questions were addressed at the Wozzeck100 symposium organized by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in collaboration with the Vienna State Opera and the Alban Berg Foundation. The Dortmund-based team from the DFG project “Communicating New Music: Communicative, Media-Based, and Performative Strategies of Music Creators (1918–1938)” was in Vienna for the event.

In addition to fascinating presentations on the various figures who made the premiere of *Wozzeck* and other works of the early 20th century possible, the program also included a visit to a performance of Alban Berg’s *Wozzeck* at the Vienna State Opera, a tour of the new Universal Edition offices, and an invitation to Alban Berg’s house courtesy of the Alban Berg Foundation. Kordula Knaus gave a fascinating lecture on recitative and singing voice in Berg’s *Wozzeck* and *Lulu*, and Rahel Schwarz reported on her and Lluc Solés Carbó’s research into the radio premiere of Julia Kerr’s opera *Die Schöne Lau*.