Schott Musik

Elgar wrote his musical 'billet doux' in 1888 and dedicated it to his fiancée Caroline Alice Roberts. It was premiered in 1889 and helped to establish Elgar's reputation as a composer. To this day the...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. René Leibowitz had intr...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...

In this work, the quartet becomes a single composite instrument. This instrument cannot play individual sounds but rather composite gestures, of which the initial impulse linked to the production of a...

The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting to...

In his second string quartet the composer Harald Weiss counters our fast-moving time with a work on silence and concentration. Rubatos, fermatas and little caesuras are added to simple note values - l...

Das 'Pocket Concerto' von Garth Knox bringt die Gattung des Solokonzerts in ein völlig neuartiges Taschenformat. Während die Viola in einem virtuosen Solopart mit zeitgenössischen Spieltechniken brill...

Partitur = Solostimme

Partitur = Cembalo/Klavier

Arnold Schönberg is the central figure in the musical world of this century. His musical significance was already apparent during his life-time, but his posthumous influence has increased immensely. H...

Muffat, pupil of Lully and Corelli, composed his concerto 'Victoria Maesta' ('Sad Victory') in 1689 as organist and chamber musician in the court of the archbishop of Salzburg. The title refers to the...

Pietro Nardini was the most important pupil of Tartini regarding both violin playing and composition. Like his teacher, he attached special significance to the beauty of sound and the -suitability for...

Pietro Nardini was the most important pupil of Tartini regarding both violin playing and composition. Like his teacher, he attached special significance to the beauty of sound and the -suitability for...

Streichorchester; Bläser ad lib. und B.c.; Cembalo (Klavier), Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.

Stimmensatz - 5 Violinen I, 5 Violinen II, 3 Violinen III/Viola, 3 Violen, 5 Violoncelli/Kontrabässe - Streichorchester; Bläser ad lib. und B.c.; Cembalo (Klavier), Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib...

Stimmensatz - Oboe I/II, Horn I/II, 4 Violinen I/II, 2 Violen, 4 Violoncelli/Kontrabässe - Kammerorchester

Streicher-Ergänzungssatz

Stimmensatz - 5 Violinen I, 5 Violinen II, 5 Violoncelli/Kontrabässe