A View of Berg's Lulu: Through the Autograph Sources

After 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. Patricia Hall's new book represents a primary contribution to that understanding—the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera as well as other related autograph material and previously inaccessible correspondence to Berg.

In 1959, Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Librar...