String Quartet Op. 3

The String Quartet Op. 3 by Alban Berg was composed in 1910. Along with the composer's piano sonata it received its premiere on 14 April 1911, although it was not published until 1920. In two movements (Langsam and Mäßige viertel), the work is more freely atonal than the sonata. It is highly contrapuntal in texture. The first movement is in sonata form, with a main theme based on the whole-tone scale. The second movement uses a modified version o... more

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johanne Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone...
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