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My quartets composed between 1997 and 2005 were conceived as an interconnected, self-contained cycle of works ranging from the (in my opinion) quasi revolutionary Quartet No. 1 to the Quartet No. 5 en...

My String Quartet No. 7 – the second of my ‘Beethoven studies’ – is the first of my quartets to possess a two-movement structure. The density of texture is additionally enhanced, meaning that the open...

My String Quartet No. 8 is made up of three movements, and a fast tempo prevails almost throughout the entire work. The extreme brevity of the opening movement oscillates between rugged unisono passag...

I consider Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 130 with its Grosse Fuge as the pinnacle of all quartets. In each of the four movements, Beethoven succeeds in re-inventing the archetypal movement forms with...

Hindemith's string quartets appear in the present new edition after the text of the complete edition. The 1st String Quartet in C major is Hindemith's first large-scale work and reveals the great tale...

Depth of content, exuberant liveliness and sophistication of the compositional technique – Samuel Rhodes, violist of the renowned Juilliard String Quartet, praises Paul Hindemith's string quartets. Th...

Paul Hindemith made his breakthrough as the leading German composer of his generation at the first 'Donaueschingen Chamber Music Performances' in 1921 with his 3rd String Quartet Op. 16. The premiere...

As in his Kaz Dağları sonatı (Mount Ida Sonata) (VLB 225) and in Yürüyen Köşk (The Moved House) (ED 22893), Say also wants to draw attention to the need to protect the habitats of animals in the wild....

Die Entstehung des String Sextet von G. Waterhouse umfasst einen Zeitraum von fast vier Jahrzehnten. Jeder Satz ist eine Zeitkapsel in der sich kompositorische Stilmittel, Techniken und Klangsprachen...

The 9th String Quartet forms the penultimate work in my Beethoven Study quartet cycle. Chronologically, however, it was composed after the 10th Quartet Cavatina. And indeed, when composing it, it felt...

Washing up flower smells don't drink the soap it'll make you sick. Gunge odours and lucid states of decay. Do you choose? Will you loose the space around you? Super-Munch them 1 by 1 on the library co...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

This substantial mature work shows the superb mastery of one of Germany's foremost contemporary composers. Henze, renowned for his lush orchestral textures and sensuous sonorities, aims for similar mu...

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...

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...

Der Komponist verwendet unverändert das Fragment G-Dur für Streichtrio von Mozart (K.V. 562 e) und komponiert drei Sätze hinzu, von denen einer vor und zwei nach dem Fragment gespielt werden.

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...