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'The Alban Berg Quartett are exploratory, highly spontaneous, and succeed in allowing the listener to participate in the unfolding of the music. So far as technique is concerned, the very complex and demanding scores are realised in playing of the highest standard' Gramophone Magazine The Alan Berg Quartett was founded in 1970 by four young professors of the Vienna Academy of Music, and made its debut in the Vienna Konzerthaus in autumn 1971. Its inclination and conviction was towards the Viennese classics, through the Romantic tradition to the works of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern and Bartok, and embracing great contemporary composers. Since they were founded the Alban Berg Quartett have been prolific recording artists and have received over thirty major international awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Edison Prize, International Classical Music Award, Japan Grand Prix, and Gramophone Magazine Award. Public and critics regard many of these recordings as definitive alike. Among their many recording projects have been the complete quartets by Beethoven, Brahms, Berg, Webern and Bartok, the complete late Mozart and late Schubert quartets, Haydn, Dvorak, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, von Einem and Haubenstock-Ramati, as well as live recordings from the Carnegie Hall, New York, the Opera Comique in Paris, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and particularly from the Konzerthaus in Vienna.