Lyric Suite

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Lyric Suite is a landmark 1920s string quartet by Alban Berg that blends twelve-tone techniques with intense late-Romantic expressiveness and a hidden programmatic love narrative.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf chamber music composition
string quartet
associatedWith Hanna Fuchs-Robettin
catalogNumber Universal Edition UE score number (publisher catalog)
composer Alban Berg
compositionEndDate 1926
compositionStartDate 1925
containsCipher musical monogram
numerological symbolism
dedication to the memory of Alexander von Zemlinsky
genre string quartet
hasForm multi-movement cyclic work
hasKeyMaterial secret tone row
hasMovement Adagio appassionato
Allegretto gioviale
Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico
Andante amoroso
Largo desolato
Presto delirando – Tenebroso
hasProgram hidden love narrative
hasVersion orchestral arrangement of three movements
string orchestra version
influencedBy Alexander von Zemlinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
languageOfText none
movementCount 6
notableFor complex motivic and thematic unity
expressive extremes of mood
integration of twelve-tone method with Romantic lyricism
period 20th-century classical music
placeOfComposition Vienna
premiereDate 1927
publisher Universal Edition
scoredFor cello
two violins
viola
style Second Viennese School
usesTechnique atonality
late-Romantic expressiveness
twelve-tone technique
yearOfWork 1920s

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Alban Berg notableWork Lyric Suite
Lyric Suite alsoKnownAs Lyrische Suite (German)
linked to: Lyric Suite
Alban Berg notableWork Lyric Suite
subject linked to: Berg
Helene Nahowski dedicateeOf Lyric Suite (Alban Berg)
linked to: Lyric Suite
Lyric Symphony influenced Lyric Suite