[1] The two-movement string quartet is among Berg's most original compositions.
Reminiscents of Schoenberg's F♯ minor quartet, the sound owes more to Romanticism than to contemporary composers like Webern.
[2][3][4] It was probably the first extended composition consistently based on symmetrical pitch relations.
[5] Along with the composer's Piano Sonata, it received its premiere on 24 April 1911[6][7] at the Vienna Musikverein.
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