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 Mathilde von Zemlinsky (the sister of his teacher Alexander von Zemlinsky), whom he would later marry. The movement can be divided into five distinct sections which refer to the five stanzas of Dehmel's poem; however, there are no unified criteria regarding movement separation.
The piano transcription has been created by Zsolt Tempfli - a Hungarian composer - and it was finished on 12th October 2012.
The premiere of the transcription took place in The John Savage Centre, Essex, London on 11th October 2015, performed by David Silkoff.
The piano score can be downloaded from: www.tempfli.ro/scores/schonbe...