Classical Music for String Quartet

Finally a clean, modern edition of six quartets by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Joseph Bologne) clearly edited with bowings and fingerings by Endre Granat. These early works fit stylistically in th...

Alban Berg's (1885-1935) String Quartet, Op. 3, was written in 1910, though it would remain unpublished for another ten years. In two movements, it is among Berg's most original compositions and is co...

Anne Boyd 's String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Geoff Stearn. It was premiered by Orava String Quartet, Huntington Estate Music Festival, 29th November 2015. This work...

Anne Boyd 's String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Geoff Stearn. It was premiered by Orava String Quartet, Huntington Estate Music Festival, 29th November 2015. This work...

Molto appassionato, think of Argentina! Kalevi Aho wrote Tango 60 for string quartet (2012) in order to celebrate his sister's 60th birthday.

Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is "the floundering, playful, if...

Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with p...

Timo Alakotila's La cantina (String quartet no. 3, 2013) was commissioned by a distinguished Finnish string quartet Kamus. The title of the quartet in four movements was inspired by the ongoing renova...

Kalevi Aho composed a shimmering six-minute journey for string quartet under the title Sumussa ("In the fog", 2023). It was premiered by Tempera Quartet at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week in January 2024...

Esa Pietilä's Icons of Blue, Black & Sun (String quartet no. 2) was composed in 2022 and premiered by SKATTA String Quartet. Three icons in three colours is an association of colours and the state of...

Renewed string parts (2025) with a study score! Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) dedicated his String quartet (1985) dedicated to the memory of his friend, the Estonian actor Urmas Kibuspuu (1953-1985). The...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) second string quartet dates from February 1970, when he was in his second year as a student of Eino-Juhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. Its premiere in the debut concert...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) String quartet no. 3 (1971) comprises eight short sections played in a single movement without pause and is strictly linear in character. The work begins, in all simplicity, wit...

Ein Divertimento im besten Sinn ist dieses Frühwerk des späteren Dadaisten und Komponisten des Kommunistischen Manifests. Es verbindet bei nicht zu hohem Schwierigkeitsgrad Spielfreude und Klangsinnli...

Ein Divertimento im besten Sinn ist dieses Frühwerk des späteren Dadaisten und Komponisten des Kommunistischen Manifests. Es verbindet bei nicht zu hohem Schwierigkeitsgrad Spielfreude und Klangsinnli...

Die Uraufführung des Streichquartetts e-Moll fand am 6. November 1925 in Göttingen im Studentenheim am Wilhelmsplatz statt. Es spielte das Bentz-Quartett, eines von wenigen reinen Frauenensembles der...

Traveling Music was the first work written for the then newly-formed Kronos String Quartet. The year was 1973. It is in three movements. The first is short and sweet and its material recurs late in th...

Eight Reflections on Swing Low' for string quartet is based on the spiritual, 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.' It consists of eight short vignettes, each one about a minute in length, with parts of the ori...

I started writing this homage on March the 22nd of 2005 at 11 a.m. as a celebration of the 61 years 5 months and 12 days since the birth of the composer Albert Sarda. I finished on July the 18th of 20...

This work is part of a series for different chamber and symphonic ensembles. The 'Retrato V' for string quartet is divided in two sections. In the first one the dissonant sections interact with the co...

In four movements: Energico y furioso, Largo, Sostenuto and Presto nervoso. The concept of confrontation leads to a posing of contrasts by mean of characteristic elements taken out from the exploitati...