Thematic Units and Developments. On the Persistence of ‘Organic Form’ in Chamber Music Between 1910 and 1930

The Formenlehre (theory of the musical form), inaugurated by Adolf Bernhard Marx after Beethoven's death and witnessed several treatises at end nineteenth beginning twentieth centuries, has left traces in writings works Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg Anton Webern. Chamber music (especially string quartets) is area which dialogue with past most tangible. adoption traditional concepts associated significant changes thematic structures developmental techniques. Thus, transformations harmonic thinking are paralleled way composers dealt phrase organisation syntactic functions.