Classical Music for String Quartet

Many anecdotes surround String Quartet op. 131: Beethoven is said to have considered it to be his finest quartet and of his late period works, the one dearest to his heart. It is also believed that th...

After years of several personal and creative crises, the last two years of Beethoven's life were marked by an irrepressible creative urge that was directed almost exclusively towards the string quarte...

Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello - set of parts; Urtext edition

Das 1893 komponierte, einzige Streichquartett von Claude Debussy war sein erstes Meisterwerk. Zusammen mit 'Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune ' und ' Pelléas et Mélisande ', zwei weiteren Werken aus d...

Die zwei Bagatellen für Streichquartett zeugen von der absoluten kompositorischen Beherrschung des Materials. Ein ruhiger und ein Scherzando Satz hören sich an, als wären es zwei Teile eines Puzzles....

'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called "Zeche 2" in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena...

Drei ineinander übergehende Sätze, das Streichquartett als eine Art Schlaginstrument. Taktwechsel, schnell, Rhythmus, Gegenargument, Konsequenz, Verdichtung, Gestalt, Oszillationsglissandi, homophon,...

Drei ineinander übergehende Sätze, das Streichquartett als eine Art Schlaginstrument. Taktwechsel, schnell, Rhythmus, Gegenargument, Konsequenz, Verdichtung, Gestalt, Oszillationsglissandi, homophon,...

Zum Beethoven-Jahr sollten Komponisten ausgewählte Textstellen aus Beethovens Konversationsheften vertonen. York Höllers Text 'fokussierte sich am Ende auf den Satz ‚Das Rad läuft' - darin stecken die...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize o...

“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me...

“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me...

Ukrainian Sketches, written in 1941, is the last surviving work by the Polish-Ukrainian composer Józef Koffler. Originally a follower of the Second Viennese School, Koffler, himself a professor and fu...

1936 was Hans Winterberg's most fruitful creative year before the catastrophe that befell Czechoslovakia with the annexation of the Sudeten territories in 1938 and the „rest of Czechoslovakia“ in 1939...

Hans Winterberg's 2nd String Quartet from 1942 is one of the few works that he was able to compose under unimaginable living conditions during the period of Nazi terror in Czechoslovakia. In that year...

Each of the four string quartets by the Bohemian composer Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) has its own unusual history. The first, composed in happy times in Prague in 1936, had to wait until 2024 for its...

Hans Winterberg's four string quartets were composed over a period of four decades between 1936 and 1961 and reflect the four stages of his eventful biography. He composed the first in what were proba...