 I feel as if above the last cloud

Swimming in a sea of crystal radiance—
I am only a spark of the holy fire
I am only a whisper of the holy voice.Schoenberg's Third String Quartet dates from 1927, after he had worked out the basic principles of his twelve-tone technique.Schoenberg had followed the "fundamental classicistic procedure" by modeling this work on Franz Schubert's String Quartet in A minor, Op.