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I waited a long time before approaching Berg's music. It's intense, mature and gets deeper the more you listen to it. Like all good art, it is more than the sum of its parts. One of my teachers Wilfred Josephs advised against repetition in music, saying that if I wanted to vary material, I should refer to Berg's opera Wozzeck (1922) as a "seed catalogue for the use of the ostinato". Berg's music works on a number of different levels simultaneously: there is quotation, there are codes, tone rows, rhythmic games, games with time and reference to old forms in music. Fascinating, beautiful and engaging stuff!
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