Alban Berg

Here's a composer whom I've been listening to lately. Alban Berg was born February 9, 1885. I found this quote on the British Library site: "Berg was a leading member of the ‘Second Viennese School’. The group’s music explored the extreme edges of tonality and beyond, which they saw as an extension of the kind of model perfected by their illustrious predecessors Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Berg’s music is generally considered more lyrical and accessible than that of Schoenberg and Webern, who each took slightly different musical directions." Among his several works, Berg wrote two operas that are in the repertoire: Wozzeck, and Lulu.