Classical Music for String Quartet

four scores needed for performance

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...

Dem Erben-Quartett der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin gewidmet.

The string quartet score for Arcadiana composed by Thomas Adès in digital sheet music format.

The parts for the string quartet Arcadiana composed by Thomas Adès in digital sheet music format.

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...

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...

Das Quartett Nr. 1 in Es-Dur zeigt, dass sie sich auch in Bezug auf die musikalische Qualität nicht hinter den frühen Werken dieser anerkannten Meister verstecken muss. Auch das zweite der sechs Quart...

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...