Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3

- Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) - Performers: New Zealand String Quartet - Year of recording: 2004 String Quartet, Op. 3, written in 1910. 00:00 - I. Langsam 10:19 - II. Mäßige Viertel Alban Berg’s String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) was the last work the composer produced under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg. First perfomed in 1911 and published nine years later, the two-movement String Quartet was not well received at its premiere and received no further performances for more than a decade. Schoenberg, however, admired the piece, and the work may rightly be regarded as an appropriate valedictory for Berg’s transition from apprenticeship to musical maturity. According to Berg’s wife Helene, the inspiration for the Quartet was born of the frustration both she and Berg experienced when Helene’s father forbade the two lovers from seeing one another. In this work, Berg takes a great step beyond the compositiona