December 24, after completing his concert for violin, Alban Berg died. He was a great promoter of Schoenberg’s twelve tone technique of which he made a highly personal adaptation that enabled him to combine frank atonality with more traditionally tonal passages and harmonies.
His Piano Sonata op.1 is one of the most formidable initial works ever written by any composer. It is a striking example of the developing variation technique — the whole composition can be derived from the opening quartal gesture and from the opening phrase.

Alban Berg – Sonata per pianoforte op.1 (1908) – Erik Wickström pianoforte