Ekaterina Frolova, violin
Holger Groh, violin
Thomas Hajek, viola
Edison Pashko, violoncello

Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor op. 7
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major op. 127

5.30 pm: Presentation of autographs from the archive of the Arnold Schönberg Center and the archive of the Vienna Philharmonic as well as curator's tour with Therese Muxeneder through the exhibition "Painted music. A visit to Arnold Schönberg’s atelier".
(Reservation required)

For the first time, a chamber concert in cooperation with the Wiener Philharmoniker will take place at the Arnold Schönberg Center. Arnold Schönberg’s First String Quartet, op. 7 condenses a four-part cycle into a single movement lasting fifty minutes. Following a hidden program, it combines expressive immediacy with a contemporary musical language. Beethoven initiated the series of his late quartets with his equally monumental Opus 127. Combining emotional complexity with an overall unified structure, Beethoven’s final creative phase has served as a model for subsequent generations of composers right up to the modern era.