Lyric Suite (Berg)

Lyric Suite
String quartet by Alban Berg
Sketch of Alban Berg by Emil Stumpp (1927)
Composed1925 (1925)–26
DedicationAlexander von Zemlinsky
MovementsSix

The Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Though publicly dedicated to Alexander von Zemlinsky (from whose Lyric Symphony it quotes), the work has been shown to possess a "secret dedication" and to outline a "secret programme".[1]

Berg arranged three of the "pieces" (movements) for string orchestra in 1928.