String Quartet no. 3, op. 30 / Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 (String Sextet)

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 and Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (String Sextet) are compositions by Arnold Schönberg, composed in 1927 and 1899 respectively. The works contrast late-Romantic, richly chromatic sextet writing with a later, more condensed and experimental quartet idiom that charts Schönberg's transition from nineteenth-century harmonic language towards early twentieth-century atonality and modernist techniques in his compositional development.