Korngold was exiled to Los Angeles due to the rise of Nazism, where he became a pioneer of film scoring and won two Academy Awards.
Korngold often drew on his songs for other compositions, a practice in the tradition of Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler.
The Third String Quartet was the first of Korngold's works to incorporate material from his film scores, a right he secured in his contract.
Korngold's chamber works often assume orchestral sonorities, as he aimed to expand the medium without restricting style or ideas.
Henri Sigfridsson, a Finnish pianist, won first prize, the audience award, and the chamber music prize at the Beethoven Competition in Bonn in 2005.
The Aron Quartet, founded in 1998 by four Viennese musicians, has been influenced by members of the Alban Berg Quartet and other notable artists.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, admired by Mahler, Strauss, and Puccini, was a child prodigy who became a major operatic and symphonic composer.
