Al­ban Berg Quar­tet plays Ex­cerpts from

II. Move­ment; An­dante con mo­to, in G mi­nor and di­vid­ed com­mon (2:2) time

The sec­ond move­ment is a theme — tak­en from Schu­bert's macabre song Der Tod und Das Mäd­chen (D 531 in Deutsch's cat­a­log) — and five vari­a­tions, with co­da.

The String Quar­tet in D mi­nor writ­ten in 1824 by Franz Schu­bert, just af­ter the com­pos­er be­came aware of his ru­ined health, is pop­u­lar­ly known as the Death and the Maid­en Quar­tet from the vari­a­tion-​sub­ject of the sec­ond move­ment. In the nu­mer­i­cal or­der of his quar­tets it is his String Quar­tet No. 14, and is D. 810 in Ot­to Erich Deutsch's the­mat­ic cat­a­log of Schu­bert's works. The work is a string quar­tet in four move­ments.

In 1878, Robert Franz tran­scribed the quar­tet for pi­ano duet.

This is one of the quar­tet works, along with Beethoven's String Quar­tet No. 11 in F mi­nor ("Quar­tet­to se­rioso"), that Mahler ar­ranged for use by a string or­ches­tra, most­ly by dou­bling some of the cel­lo parts with dou­ble bass­es.

In 1930 the British com­pos­er John Foulds made a ver­sion "as a sym­pho­ny" for full (clas­si­cal) or­ches­tra.

Ariel Dorf­man's 1991 play Death and the Maid­en and its 1994 film adap­ta­tion (di­rect­ed by Ro­man Polan­s­ki) take their names from the quar­tet.