String Quartets Nos 1 and 2 Author:Arnold Schoenberg 2 major chamber works by influential modern composer. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 displays Wagnerian influence, advanced chromaticism. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 pushes music to the brink of atonality, points toward composer’s revolutionary "composition with twelve tones." Reproduced from authoritative editions. New English translations ... more »of Stefan George poems in String Quartet No. 2.« less