Partituras para quarteto de piano

Terminado el 1 de enero de 1885, el Cuarteto con piano es, junto con la Sonata para violonchelo op. 6 y la Sonata para violín op. 18, una de las obras de cámara más importantes del joven Strauss. Se t...

Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in...

Inspired by the success of his First Piano Quartet, published in 1884, the composer began a second work in this genre only a short time later. The style is considerably more serene and individual than...

For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvořák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summe...

As the title implies, these four concertini by Joseph Haydn have to do with small concerti, whereby 'small' is to be considered from several points of view: the size of the Haydn concertini, the scori...

One can only regret that Beethoven left only four piano quartets, as these four works rank among the most popular of this genre. Three of them, the Quartets WoO 36, had been penned in Bonn, which make...

As with the g minor Quartet op. 25, the origins of opus 26 reach back into the 1850s. However, it assumed its final shape only in summer and fall 1861. While in her first evaluation of the work Clara...

In the Viennese classical era a divertimento was a light, multi-movement instrumental piece of cheerful, dance-like character. Alongside Mozart, it was above all Haydn who mastered the art of composin...

This Trio's unusual scoring for horn, violin and piano prompted speculation early on about a possible background to it that had no connection with music. Brahms's biographer Max Kalbeck saw in it a la...

Louis Ferdinand, Prinz von Preussen (1772-1806) war ein Neffe Friedrich des Großen; der König schätzte ihn sehr, vor allem auch wegen seiner aussergewöhnlichen musikalischen Begabung. Die wenigen Jahr...

Heinrich Freiherr von H e r z o g e n b e r g wurde am 10. 6.1843 in Graz geboren. Seine musikalische Ausbildung erhielt er am Wiener Konservatorium, wo er Schüler F.O.Dessoffs war. 1872 ging er nach...

Commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for its Thirtieth Anniversary for the Clarosa Quartet. 'The first movement begins with detached fragments and soon turns into something cohesive...