Austrian composer Alban Berg (1855-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this book. He examines each of the composer's works - including the Piano Sonata, Opus I, the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and the Violin Concerto - and defines the main components of his musical language. Charting Berg's development as he progressed from late-romantic tonality to atonality and finally to his own distinctive dodecaphonic language, Headlam demonstrates the compositional continuity that underlies all of Berg's music.