Verklärte Nacht

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto

·        written in 1935

·        diatonicism and dodecaphony.

·        commissioned by Louis Krasner, and dedicated by Berg to "the memory of an angel", Manon Gropius.

·        Berg described the structure of the concerto in a letter to Arnold Schoenberg. [3] It is in two movements, each divided into two sections:

i.                              a.           Andante (Prelude)                  b.           Allegretto (Scherzo) ii.                              a.           Allegro (Cadenza)                  b.           Adagio (Chorale Variations)

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: I. Sehr langsam

·        Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, à string sextet composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899.

·        Composed in just three weeks,

·        The movement can be divided into five distinct sections which refer to the five stanzas of Dehmel's poem; however, there are no unified criteria regarding movement separation.

Verklärte Nacht Media

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  Mathilde Schönberg (1907), by Richard Gerstl