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Soviet musicologist to travel to Vienna
Philip Gershkowitz, the last living pupil of Alban Berg, has received permission to travel from Moscow to Vienna for a six month stay. The Austrian Embassy announced after seven years of effort, with Gershkowitz previously seeking to emigrate to Israel. Berg, born 1885, died 1935, is famed for 12 tone methods and the opera Wozzeck.
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