Classical Music for String Quartet

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

First edition

Edited from the first edition.

The F-major work captivates the listener with a perfectly formed mixture of a stirring movement set in a stylistically confident manner and the opera composer's great art of exploiting cantabile to th...

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition

The Amadeus Verlag is endeavoring to present all eleven of Romberg's quartets, not least in order to give special recognition to works with a virtuoso cello part, also on the concert podiums. Edited f...

Especially this G minor quartet as a prelude to the series of three op. 25 is excellently suited as an introduction to the cello-dominated compositional scheme of the master cellist Romberg. Edited fr...

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

First Edition

Edited from the first Edition.

Edited from the First Edition

While in the 1st movement surprising modulations characterize the playing dominated by the 1st violin, in the slow movement the very colorfully harmonized lyrical melodicism surprises, while in the bu...

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

The Third String Quartet was composed in Winterthur in 1879.The autograph, long thought lost, has only recently reappeared. A review after a performance in 1911 found that the quartet could also be pl...

Edited from the First Edition.