What is Verklärte Nacht?
'''''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. It was inspired by [[Richard Dehmel]]'s poem of the same name, combined with the influence of Schoenberg's strong feelings upon meeting the sister of his teacher, [[Alexander von Zemlinsky]] (1877–1923), whom he married in 1901. The movement can be divided into five distinct sections which refer to the five stanzas of Dehmel's poem; {{DEFAULTSORT:Verklarte Nacht}} [[Category:Chamber music compositions]] [[Category:1890s works]]