To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian composer and founder of the New Viennese School, A. Schönberg (1874-1951), one of the most important chamber music opuses - the piano trio "The Night Has Broken" - will be played at the closing concert of the XVII Rokiškis Classical Music Festival. This evening the work will be performed by violinist Justina Zajančauskaitė, cellist Rokas Vaitkevičius and pianist Simona Zajančauskaitė.

Starting at the threshold of the 20th century, in 1899, Schoenberg wrote the work in just three weeks, although he returned to this score, which was of great importance to him, three times, and revised it towards the end of his life. The musical dramaturgy of the work was inspired by a poem from the collection Man and Woman by the German poet Richard Dehmel (1863-1920), who was close to Expressionism. It tells the story of a man and a woman walking in the moonlight who reveal a secret to their lover: she is pregnant with another man's baby... The work captures the composer's feelings when he meets Matilda, the sister of his teacher Alexander Zemlinsky, the future A. Schönberg's future wife, the future wife of his son Zemlinsky.