Verklarte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire

Inspired by a poem of Richard Dehmel, the 1899 work "Verklarte Nacht" is a tone poem for string sextet composed in the late-Romantic tradition. "Pierrot Lunaire, " composed in 1912, is a musical setting for speaker and chamber ensemble of 21 poems by Albert Giraud, incorporating Schoenberg's revolutionary theory of atonality and singing-speech delivery called "Sprechstimme."