String Quartet (Berg)

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][7] at the Vienna Musikverein.

References

1. "Alban Berg – Streichquartett op. 3". Universal Edition. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
2. Theodor W. Adorno; Juliane Brand; Christopher Hailey (1991). Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. Cambridge University Press. pp. 53ff. ISBN 978-0-521-33884-4.
3. Robin Stowell (13 November 2003). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge University Press. pp. 291ff. ISBN 978-0-521-00042-0.
4. Anthony Pople (24 June 1991). Berg: Violin Concerto. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11ff. ISBN 978-0-521-39976-0.
5. Perle, George (1990). The Listening Composer. University of California Press. pp. 21ff. ISBN 978-0-520-06991-6.
6. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "24 April 1911, Musikverein". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
7. "Alban Berg". Classical Composers Database. 27 June 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2010.

External links

• String Quartet, Op. 3 by Alban Berg: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• String quartet Op. 3, Answers.com. Accessed 27 May 2006.
• Animated score on YouTube, New Zealand String Quartet, 2004