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The mography on an Brno original Brno born composer Josef Berg (1927-1971) and his last great work "Snění" (Dreaming). The monograph is the second revised edition of the 2002 study. Josef Berg lived briefly and under the conditions for the development of the art to be learned very difficult. Yet he has created a work that still impresses with its scope and originality, but also with its ethical dimension - its non-pragmatic, even childish, approach to creation remains a challenge to future generations. However, due to unfavorable circumstances, its importance remains unrecognized, its music is rarely operated, its legacy still awaiting full exploration. By focusing on his last completed and realized song, which in itself is a unique piece of work, the author wants to draw attention to the complexity of Berg's issue, which is a very specific contribution to the development of compositional thinking in our country. Although it is a professional work dealing with the issue of composition theory, this book also touches on other and more general problem areas and also bears witness to the historical situation in which Josef Berg was set. As the personality of Josef Berg is not yet exhaustively processed, the author felt the need to point out Berg's period and personality conditionality and to make available some documents and illustrative examples of Berg's literary work. This study of Berg's Dreaming also tells us about the situation of a creative individual, respectively. a sensitive person in society, which in the end is still a burning issue.