Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No.2, III

String Quartet No. 2, for soprano & string quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 10 (1907-1908) I. Mässig II. Sehr rash III. Litanei (Langsam) IV. Entrückung (Sehr langsam) New Vienna String Quartet Evelyn Lear, soprano The String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10, of Arnold Schoenberg is one of the key works of musical modernism. Composed between March 1907 and August 1908, its last movement marks the decisive point at which Western art music moved from a tonally based harmonic structure to what has been called a