Partituras para cuarteto de cuerda

Haydn allowed about ten years to pass before composing a new cycle of string quartets after opus 20: the so-called 'Russian Quartets'. This is the first series of quartets that we know he wrote with p...

The volume opens with something unusual: opus 42 is a single work, short and surprisingly easy to play; Haydn described it as 'something small and with only 3 pieces'. The Quartets op. 50, including t...

These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydn's oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets, as so often in the past, but at the time they were written, in 1803, Haydn's...

The string quartet is generally considered as the chamber-music genre of the classical era: invented by Haydn, elaborated by Haydn and Mozart, and brought to its compositional peak by Beethoven. All l...

Brahms had already composed over 20 string quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that 'stuff') before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only three surviv...

Spirited', 'dramatic', 'highly expressive', and 'masterly' are among the comments made upon Mendelssohn's String Quartets op. 44 nos 1-3. He wrote them in 1837/1838, at a very happy time: he had just...

Franz Schubert composed the song 'Death and the Maiden' in 1817, and in 1824 used that melody in the theme-and-variations second movement of his String Quartet in d minor D. 810. The song's popularity...

Mendelssohn's String Quartet op. 80 is one of his few 'autobiographical' works, a moving musical document of his grief over the death of his sister Fanny and his attempt to artistically process the pa...

We have now come full circle - this edition concludes our Urtext series of the complete Beethoven string quartets. The ending of this highly expressive work, at whose centre is the famous 'Cavatina',...

Attention, string quartet players: the long wait is over! Henle launches its series of late Beethoven quartets with op. 131 in c sharp minor and op. 132 in a minor, using the definitive urtext from th...

Attention, string quartet players: the long wait is over! Henle launches its series of late Beethoven quartets with op. 131 in c sharp minor and op. 132 in a minor, using the definitive urtext from th...

Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838/39 were only fragments, the three String Quartets op. 41 in a minor, F major and A major were written in...

.. ich gehe alle Sonntage um 12 uhr zum Baron van suiten - und da wird nichts gespiellt als Händl und Bach. - ich mach mir eben eine Collection von den bachischen fugen - so wohl Sebastian als Emanuel...

Die hier vorgelegte Komposition ist noch zu Rachmaninows Studienzeit entstanden. Auch wenn man den Einfluss seiner Lehrer Arensky und Tanejew, und vor allem der Persönlichkeit des von ihm hochverehrte...

Das einzige Kammermusikwerk des großen finnischen Meisters. Wie schon der Titel andeutet, sind die 5 Sätze Dichtungen in zarter, intimer Tonsprache.

Presenting a collection of 15 all-time Anderson favorites arranged for string quartet or string orchestra. Complete works, not excerpts, these unique arrangements can be used by school or professional...

European String Teachers Association, Winter 1999

The energetic style of Celtic fiddling music continues to be a hit with the incredible success of both the Lord of the Dance and Riverdance stage productions. With this new arrangement for string quar...

'Quartetstart' is a break-through for string quartet teaching! Level 1 provides a first-class collection of original pieces written specifically for string players of around grade 1-2 standard. 'Quart...

Violine (2), Viola, Violoncello - Stimmensatz; Urtextausgabe