Alban Berg

String Quartet op. 3-Alban Berg?s String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already composed in 1910 and first published in 1920 it was the last composition the25-year-old wrote under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg who admired ?the fullness and unconstraint of his musical language the strength and sureness of its presentation its careful working and significantoriginality?. Even today the extremely complex work places the highest technical demands on the interpreters; for this reason this edition contains parts that are especially good to play from in which each musician can alsofollow what is going on in the other parts.

With marked and unmarked string parts.The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and AlmaMahler with whom Berg was friends - died of polio.He dedicated the concerto 'To the memory of an angel' in her memory. Then Alban Berg died in 1935 so he no didn't live to see it printed or performed. Henle's edition -Violin part and Piano reduction - follows the score edited by Michael Kube which is being published simultaneously by Breitkopf & Härtel together with the orchestral parts and pocket score.The illustrious violinist FrankPeter Zimmermann has provided fingerings and bowings for the violin part.