Quatuor a cordes no. 1 en ré mineur, op. 7

Album by Arnold Schönberg & Quatuor Manfred

Quatuor à cordes no. 1 en ré mineur, op. 7 is the first string quartet by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, completed in 1904. The work employs late-Romantic chromaticism within an expansive single-movement structure and increasingly ambiguous tonal relationships that mark a transition in Schoenberg's output toward the atonal techniques he later developed.