Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet

The music is Johannes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor as orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg. The title credits both Brahms's composition and Schoenberg's transformation of it for full orchestra.

George Balanchine created the ballet for New York City Ballet in 1966. It premiered at the New York State Theater on April 21 of that year.

No. Schoenberg orchestrated Brahms's Romantic quartet rather than rewriting it as a twelve-tone composition.

Its four danced movements follow the score's Allegro, Intermezzo, Andante, and Rondo alla zingarese. The movements are not chapters in a single plot, and the Hungarian-flavored finale is especially large and energetic.