Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, for string sextet (1899)

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, for string sextet (1899) A work in one movement for string sextet by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), his first true masterpiece, which is perhaps his most enduring composition. Composed in a highly harmonically advanced post-Romantic idiom, this work demonstrates that the young Schoenberg, aged 25, had already surpassed all his contemporaries in their style; it is little wonder that he would go on to search for new modes of composition and music