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String Quartets (Schoenberg)

series of string quartets composed by Arnold Schoenberg

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3413874 ↗
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The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Opus 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op. 10 (1908), String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927), and the String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936).

In addition to these, he wrote several other works for string quartet which were not published. The most notable was his early String Quartet in D major (1897).

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