"The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate. "
Key Works
1899
Verklärte Nacht
('Transfigured Night'), for string sextet (arranged later for string orchestra)
1903
Symphonic Poem,Pelleas und Melisande
1909
Erwartung
('Expectation'), for soprano and orchestra
Five Orchestral Pieces
1911
Gurrelieder
('Songs of Gurra'), for voices and orchestra
1912
Song-cycle,Pierrot lunaire
('Moonstruck Pierrot')
1913
Die Glückliche Hand,
('The Lucky Hand'), drama for orchestra and chorus
