Partituras para cuarteto de cuerda

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

Saitenweise KLASSIK ist der Titel einer Reihe, die eine Vielzahl kleiner Stücke für verschiedene Streicherbesetzungen vereint. Den Ausgaben liegt der Wunsch zugrunde, schon frühzeitig zum gemeinsamen...

Mit dem hier vorliegenden Streichquartett in c-Moll bewarb sich Max Bruch 1852 mit Erfolg um ein Stipendium der Frankfurter Mozart-Stiftung. Lange Zeit galt es als verschollen und wurde erst 2013 von...

Luthervariationen für Streichquartett wurden inspiriert von der Musik und dem Leben des Reformators Martin Luther. Die Dramatik, die das Leben Luthers prägte, legte es nahe, die einzelnen Sätze der Lu...

The undated String Quintet No. 2 in D Major is said to have been performed in Emilie Mayers home in 1854. As one of Mayers concerns was always to present her new works, this information also provides...

Die Handschrift ist gut lesbar und äußerst sorgfältig erstellt; sie weist verschiedentlich Anmerkungen oder Korrekturen von fremder Hand auf, etwa Eintragungen von Fingersätzen, die darauf schließen l...

La Guerres Violinsonaten gehören zu den ersten französischen Werken dieser Gattung. Sie zeigen Charakte­ristisches für den Sonatenstil der Komponistin: eine Vielzahl von Sätzen (bis zu 8 Sätze) unters...

When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...

In autumn 1895, after returning from New York once and for all, Dvorák took up his former position as teacher at the Prague Conservatory. This clearly had an inspiring impact on him because in the spa...

This volume brings together Mozart's youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing 'Lodi Quartet' K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three 'Qua...

Redolent of the work of Dmitri Shostakovich in its musical language, Evgeny Kissin's String Quartet op. 3 comprises four strongly contrasting movements: on the heels of the stately 'Adagio liberamente...

In 1919-20 George Gershwin was making a name for himself with Broadway songs and a first show of his own in New York. But he was already attracted to the world of classical music - a world he would en...

Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the 'more progressive' Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Schön...

Although Dvorak's stay in America (1892-95) was very successful, the composer suffered a good deal from homesickness. He had begun the string quartet in A flat major in New York, but continued with it...

Composed in autumn of 1881, Opus 61 is the last of Dvořák's 'middle' quartets by chronology for which Beethoven and Schubert served as the most significant models. Beethoven's influence, from thematic...

Los seis cuartetos de cuerda de Béla Bartók, compuestos entre 1908 y 1940, son hitos del género en el siglo XX. Su Primer Cuarteto de Cuerda está estrechamente vinculado a su desdichado amor por la vi...

El Segundo Cuarteto de cuerda de Bartók fue compuesto -con varias interrupciones largas- entre 1915 y 1918, después de que hubiera pasado varios años dedicado casi exclusivamente a recopilar música fo...