Partituras de Gaetano Donizetti para música de cámara

As in the best of his stage works, the quartets reveal a high sense of clarity of form and noble melody, even if the dramatic element peculiar to his operas occasionally comes through. Easy to arrange...

Primarily known as an opera composer, Donizetti nevertheless is the most important Italian representative of the string quartet genre. Whereas the first quartets can still be regarded as experiments o...

Primarily known as an opera composer, Donizetti nevertheless is the most important Italian representative of the string quartet genre. Whereas the first quartets can still be regarded as experiments o...

The instrumentation is based on soprano voice, flute and orchestra or piano, and represents one of the most famous orchestrations in the history of the opera. Complex situations can be illustrated par...

For recorder, flute, clarinet, sopran sax, violin, guitar I-II, piano I-II, percussion.

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

First edition

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

First Edition

While in the 1st movement surprising modulations characterize the playing dominated by the 1st violin, in the slow movement the very colorfully harmonized lyrical melodicism surprises, while in the bu...

Who would want to do without the quartets of the Italian? From intoxicating bel canto to playful drama, owed to the never-ending bufforesque arias of his operas, everything is offered that makes a qua...

Primarily known as an opera composer, Donizetti nevertheless is the most important Italian representative of the string quartet genre. Whereas the first quartets can still be regarded as experiments o...