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Alban Berg

web Twelve Ways of Looking at Alban Berg, after Christopher Hailey

Houghton Library

July 6, 2023

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Death-mask: (1) jpg, (2) jpg

Library of Congress

Frida Semler Seabury

June 29, 2026

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Original Transcription Translation
1 pdf ALS †∗
jpeg ALS, pp. 1 and 4
2 pdf ALS ∗
3 pdf ALS †∗
pdf Program
jpeg Envelope, front
jpeg Envelope, back
4 pdf ALS
jpeg ALS, p. 1
jpeg Envelope, front
jpeg Envelope, back
5 pdf ALS
jpeg Envelope, front
jpeg Envelope, back
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6 pdf Remembrance
jpeg Remembrance
pdf ∗∗
7 pdf TLS txt txt
8 pdf TLS
jpeg Envelope, front
jpeg Envelope, back
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9 pdf TLS txt txt
10 jpg Photo
11 jpeg Cover, outside
jpeg Cover, inside
12 jpg Clippings

Texts transcribed and translated with help from Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 5.

† See also Cardew’s translation of selections from #1 and #3, as quoted in Reich’s biography.

∗ See also the translations of #1 in its entirety and selections from #2–3 in Harris’s article for IASBN Issue 8, below.

∗∗ See also the version published in IABSN Issue 1, below.

Other media about Frida Semler Seabury:
  • png Her graduation photo, cropped from The Wellesley Legenda 1908.
  • web Her wedding announcement in the New York Times.
  • web The Seaburys mentioned in a letter from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale.

International Alban Berg Society Newsletter

July 6, 2026

Issue 1
  • pdf Semler Seabury, “1903 and 1904”
  • pdf “Berg Documents in the Library of Congress” (ed. Shirley)

pdf Issue 2

pdf Issue 3
  • pdf “Berg’s Seventeen Four-Part Canons” (trans. Allen Smith and DeVoto)
    Excerpt from Maegaard, “Ein Beispiel des atonalen Kontrapunkts im Frühstadium”

pdf Issue 4

pdf Issue 5
  • pdf Perle, “The Secret Program of the Lyric Suite”
  • pdf Green, “Berg’s De Profundis”
pdf Issue 6
  • pdf Jarman, “Lulu: The Sketches”
  • pdf Allen Smith, “Some Sources for Berg’s ‘Schliesse mir die Augen beide’ II”
Issue 7
  • pdf Perle, “ ‘Mein geliebtes Almschi…’ ”
Issue 8
  • pdf Harris, “Berg and Frida Semler”

Scans from Issues 9–13 not included (yet).