Verklärte Nacht
Musical composition by Arnold Schoenberg / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899. Composed in just three weeks, it is considered his earliest important work.[1] It was inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name and by Schoenberg's strong feelings upon meeting his future wife Mathilde Zemlinsky, who was the sister of his teacher, Alexander von Zemlinsky (1877–1942). Schoenberg and Zemlinsky married in 1901.[2] The movement can be divided into five distinct sections which refer to the five stanzas of Dehmel's poem;[3] however, there are no unified criteria regarding movement separation.[4][5][6]