String Quartet (Berg) Explained

The String Quartet, Op. 3, by Alban Berg was composed in 1910. It was not published until 1920.^[1]

The two-movement string quartet is among Berg's most original compositions. Reminiscent of Schoenberg's F minor quartet, the sound owes more to Romanticism than to contemporary composers like Webern.^{[2] [3] [4]} It was probably the first extended composition consistently based on symmetrical pitch relations.^[5]

Along with the composer's Piano Sonata, it received its premiere on 24 April 1911^[6] at the Vienna Musikverein.

External links

• • String quartet Op. 3, Answers.com. Accessed 27 May 2006.
• , New Zealand String Quartet, 2004

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alban Berg – Streichquartett op. 3. Universal Edition. 3 November 2010.
2. Book: Theodor W. Adorno. Theodor W. Adorno. Juliane Brand. Christopher Hailey. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. 1991. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-33884-4. 53ff.
3. Book: Robin Stowell. The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. 13 November 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00042-0. 291ff.
4. Book: Anthony Pople. Berg: Violin Concerto. 24 June 1991. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-39976-0. 11ff.
5. Book: Perle, George. The Listening Composer. University of California Press. 1990. 978-0-520-06991-6. 21ff.
6. Web site: Alban Berg. 27 June 2005. Classical Composers Database. 3 November 2010.